After being told by a friend that his impulse to defy tradition "may be from below," this man replied "if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." This man argued that both abstractionist and materialist traits were possessed by another thinker who spent his whole life wondering "Wh
After being told by a friend that his impulse to defy tradition "may be from below," this man replied "if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." This man argued that both abstractionist and materialist traits were possessed by another thinker who spent his whole life wondering "What do I know?" He urged people to become "Man Thinking" in a work heralded as an "intellectual Declaration of Independence." This author who described Montaigne as a "Representative Man" also delivered a speech to the Phi Beta Kappa Society and penned the maxims "Whoso must be a man, must be a (*) nonconformist" and "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." For 10 points, name this thinker who delivered "The American Scholar" and wrote "Self-Reliance."
After being told by a friend that his impulse to defy tradition "may be from below," this man replied "if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil."
Ralph Waldo Emerson