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This collection of 19th-century essays explores Emerson's thoughts about transcendentalism, individualism, and romanticism. The centerpiece of the collection, Emerson's masterpiece "Self-Reliance", clarifies the need for individuals to avoid conformity and phony consistency in order that they can follow their own intuition and ideas. Although these thoughts may appear to be anti-society in character, Emerson asserts that self-reliance must be the starting point not for the end of society but for a more efficient and better one. Throughout this collection, Emerson stresses that keen belief in the energy of the individual.
