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...Transcendentalist Emerson's (1838/1993) self-reliance, "To believe your own thoughts, to believe that what it is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius" (p. 19). We have been shaped to be who we are from our accumulated past experiences, by the stream...

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...Suckle him with the she-wolf's teat, Wintered with the hawk and fox, Power and speed be hands and feet. I READ the other day some verses written by an eminent...genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be universal sense; for always the inmost becomes the outmost — and our first thought is rendered back...

...have in the universal acceptability of his ideas. Thus, Emerson begins the same essay by stating that "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost."2"' And, in a later essay, Emerson states his view of genius...

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...nonverbal process in words. . . . If we return to Emerson's passage, a second idea is suggested in (1), "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius." This statement makes a connection between selfesteem and genius. It evokes the idea, in the strongest...

...rejects, in "Self-Reliance," as conforming to "the world's opinion," instead of his own imperative. "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius" (E&L 259). "I celebrate myself," Emersonian Whitman announces, more nonchalantly but no less momentously,...