text: A work by this man claims that "life is a self-evolving" one of the title things, of which the horizon isthe second and the eye the first.
full_question: A work by this man claims that "life is a self-evolving" one of the title things, of which the horizon isthe second and the eye the first. This author examined "essences unchanged by man" that make up the "NOT ME" in an eight-part essay, and criticized "faith that stands on authority" in an essay about a concept "within which every man's particular being is contained." He wrote a passage in which "all mean egotism vanishes" as the speaker becomes like a (*) "transparent eyeball". In another essay, he asserted that "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" and urged the reader to "trust thyself". For 10 points, name this author of "Circles", "The Over-Soul", and "Self-Reliance", whose essay "Nature" outlines the foundations of Transcendentalism.
first_sentence: A work by this man claims that "life is a self-evolving" one of the title things, of which the horizon isthe second and the eye the first.
raw_answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson