Emerson's View On Transcendentalism “There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide, that he must take himself, for better or worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.” (Emerson 20). This is a great quote in which Ralph Waldo Emerson gives one of the fundamental beliefs of transcendentalism. This quote shows how nothing in life has any meaning except for that w....

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