Emerson's Essay on Self Reliance Questions

           To preceve the essay, most people have their own attributes. They are all individuals. Emerson has a positive view on human nature. Looking at the entire essay, Emerson meant be self reliance when he said to believe in your own thoughts and not taking other people's thoughts. "the eye was placed where one ray should fall that it might testify of one particular ray." This quote means  that we are powerful whereever we put our attention. "The divine idea which most of us represents" means that each of us is an individual representing a whole. The reference to the Iron string in the essay shows us to trust yourself. Iron is strong and holds things together unlike gold or silk. Trancendentalism was a period where people wanted to break away from colonial literature and to do something new. "society everywhere is in conspiericy against the manhood of everyone of its members." This quote says that even though we are whole, we still take eachothers work. We should work together more and your voice is as great as the human voices in history. "Words as hard as cannonballs." Words can be strong and effective as cannonballs.