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"""Society and Solitude"" is a set of writings by means of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a famous American transcendentalist who wrote many works. This work is the end result of Emerson thoughts on how people must engage with others and how crucial it is to find a balance between being with others and thinking about matters by way of yourself. The essays in ""Society and Solitude"" talk approximately plenty of various things, like friendship, living, independence, and the fee of being alone. Emerson thinks about how society shapes the individual and tells human beings to stay actual to themselves and not deliver in to conformity. He seems into the concept that silence, which is different from being alone, will let you examine extra approximately yourself and develop as a person. ""Old Age"" is an essay about the expertise that incorporates aging, while ""Civilization"" is an essay approximately Emerson's mind on the coolest and terrible parts of societal growth. ""Works and Days"" stresses how critical it is to discover a stability among intellectual activities and everyday sports activities. Emerson's writing in ""Society and Solitude"" is understood for its highbrow intensity, eloquence, and sharp observations approximately humans. The books within the collection make humans reflect onconsideration on their area in society, the value of actual relationships, and the way essential by myself time is for creativity and self-reflection."

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"Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, speaker, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who lived from May 25, 1803 to April 27, 1882. He went by his middle name, Waldo. He led the transcendentalist movement in the middle of the 1800s. People looked up to him as a supporter of freedom and critical thinking, as well as a wise critic of how society and conformity can make people feel bad about themselves. He was called ""the most gifted of the Americans"" by Friedrich Nietzsche, and Walt Whitman called him his ""master."" Emerson slowly moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his time. In his 1836 essay ""Nature,"" he formulated and explained the theory of transcendentalism. After this, in 1837, he gave a speech called ""The American Scholar."" Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. thought it was America's ""intellectual Declaration of Independence."" Emerson was born on May 25, 1803, in Newbury, Massachusetts. His parents were Ruth Haskins and the Rev. William Emerson, who was a Unitarian preacher. He was named for Ralph, his mom brother, and Rebecca Waldo, his dad great-grandmother. William, Edward, Robert Bulkeley, and Charles were the other four sons who lived to adulthood. Ralph Waldo was the second of these boys to do so."

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