For 10 points, name this American essayist of "Circles," "Experience," and "Self-Reliance."
This author wrote that "the only sin is limitation" in a consideration of intellectual progress that maintains "our life is an apprenticeship to the truth, that around" each of the title figures "another can be drawn." In another work, this author argued that it makes no difference if his impulses come from heaven or hell, claiming "if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." He wrote "dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion" in an essay that begins by describing his grief at the death of his son Waldo. One of his essays argues that "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" and claims "whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." For 10 points, name this American essayist of "Circles," "Experience," and "Self-Reliance."
This author wrote that "the only sin is limitation" in a consideration of intellectual progress that maintains "our life is an apprenticeship to the truth, that around" each of the title figures "another can be drawn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson &lt;Casalaspi&gt;