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"We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men" As Ralph Waldo Emerson concluded his ....

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.... such as anti-slavery and women’s rights movements. So, what set off these changes in our society? Many trace the roots of these events back to the chief writers of the period. Transcendentalists like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau preached beliefs in self-reliance, non-conformity, and in the Over-Soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson greatly accepted the concept of self-reliance, which is the dependence on one's own judgments, powers, or resources, rather than those of others. Emerson focused on this topic in one of his essays. “There is a time in every man’s education when he [learns that] … no kernel of nourishing corn ca ....