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What is 14?
He attended Harvard Divinity School at this tender age.
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What is Transcendentalism?
Emerson was a father of this movement, even starting a club with the name.
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What is 1841?
The year "Self-Reliance" was first published.
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What is yourself?
"Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but [...]"
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Who is Henry David Thoreau?
His student and avid follower, who kept a journal.
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What is slavery or abolitionism?
A topic of great anger, violence, and division in Emerson's time.
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What is manifested or made through action?
The argument he makes about prayer.
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What is the independence of solitude?
but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd, keep with perfect sweetness [...]"
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What is Pantheism?
His belief in God takes this form, seeing God in everything around him.
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What is the American (or 19th century) Romantic Movement?
He was a thought leader and foundational element of this overarching historical movement.
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What is relative to each person?
Emerson's definition of good and bad.
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What is the integrity of your own mind?
Nothing is at last sacred but [...]"
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What is the Sage of Concord?
Emeron's title, as he came to be known.
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What is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints?
Nontrinitarian American movement that started during Emerson's life.
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What is Egypt, England, Italy, and Greece?
Here especially, traveling is a "fool's paradise".
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What is our own rejected thoughts?
In every work of genius we recognize [...]; they come back to us with a certain alienated majestry."
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What is Atheist?
The insult leveled at him by pastors, politicians, and family members alike.
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What are presidents of the US?
1841 was the first year in history that there were 3 of these.
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What are his personal journal entries?
Emerson's primary source material for the essay, dating back as far as 1832.
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What is a spectacle?
"My life is for itself and not for a [...]"
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