From ‘’ Self-Reliance’’ of Ralph Waldo Emerson
‘’Trust thyself:every heart vibrates to that iron string.Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you;the society of your contemporaries,the connexion of events.Great men have always done so and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age,betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart,working through their hands,predominating all their being.And we are now men,and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner,not cowards fleeing before a revolution,but guides,redeemers,and benefactors,obeying the almighty effort,and advancing on Chaos and the Dark. Throughout the Self-Reliance, Emerson asks for his audience to trust to themselves in a commanding way, which can also be perceived as a way of showing the gleam of the light.Man should trust himself because the power comes from the within not from the outside.The iron...