Emerson's thinking is different from ours today because he thinks that people should think for themselves and figure out our problems on our own. Today, people look to books to learn things or the internet probably even more since something can be searched for on Google and hundreds of different answers can show up. Not many people today like to think for themselves; it is like it is too hard to try to find their own solutions. People just do what others tell them or whatever they can find in their own research.
On page 499, Emerson wrote, "the beauty of the world may be viewed, namely, as it becomes an object of the intellect." This stood out to me because I have never really thought of the beauty of the world as intellect or having a "relation to thought."
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