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=Ralph Waldo Emerson's [|Nature]=



The book //Nature// was a collecton of essays written by Emerson. He believed that people should become more individual, reject traditonal authority, and begin to lead a simple life in harmony with nature. The reading relates with the individual's relationship to nature and relationship with society.

Transcendentalism was revolutionized by Ralph Waldo Emercon, for he searched the nature of truth. During the 1800's thinkers/writers/ and artists with this mentality flourished. Basically, Emerson beleived that nothing was stronger than the individual itself (no believe in institutions). The Industrial Revolution to Emerson was a living example of how machines had replace human beings. And this thought truly bothered him because he thoguht that individuals were very significant, and the most important force in the universe. Emerson believed that people and their minds are so powerful, powerful enough to figure out anything it pleases. **Emerson proposed that all souls and all of nature was part of an "Over-Soul"** with everyone being a part of God's mind.

Emerson believed nature to be only pure place in the world, a place where one can return to reason and faith. There is no calamity that cannot be repaired by nature. It is a place in which all mean egotism vanishes. Everything in nature has its own meaning, and its own importance, nothing is unacknowleged.


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