...naturally good self or, in the United States, Ralph Waldo Emerson's ([1841] 1949, p. 34) assertion that "society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. . .The virtue in most request is conformity."6 Nineteenth-century socialism and Marxism, too, were...

...altruism, a detriment to the individual's ability to grow, which is also his or her self-sufficiency: "Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members...request is conformity. Self-Reliance is its aversion" (E, 261). Solvency, by contrast, would be precisely a kind of monetary singularity; loosely speaking,...

...would be a man, must be a nonconformist. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The essay is nevertheless not anticommunity, not a blueprint for withdrawal from society. Self-reliance...

...ANTI SLAVERY MICHAEL STRYSICK Emerson, Slavery, and the Evolution of the Principle of Self-Reliance Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. — RALPH WALDO EMERSON, "Self-Reliance" EMERSON'S RELATION to pressing social issues such as slavery...

...must influence and be influenced by others. A final glance at Emerson's essay confirmed my suspicion. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood...request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. I still agree with many of Emerson's stirring aphorisms about self-reliance, but I don't agree that...

...threatened to suppress the innate essence that made humans what they were. In Ralph Waldo Emerson's words, "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members." '4 Society was the enemy because it interfered with the natural desire for freedom. And freedom, in...

...nature." "The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner ... is the healthy attitude of human nature." "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members." "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."...

...MEN over his wariness of "professionalism" as speaker or author. As he asserted in "Self-Reliance," "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood...request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion" (CW 2:29). Emerson, in short, did not want to sell out — he did not want to mortgage his individuality,...

...flashes across his mind from within..." "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood...to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater." 18 distinction in determination, persistence, endurance, and courage that determines the quality of...

...boys themselves, once grown, will also have to pay. "Society is a joint-stock company," he writes, "in which the members agree for the better securing...to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater." While "nonchalance" may be a "healthy attitude," the health of the body requires that we eat, and the...