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In his lifetime, Ralph Waldo Emerson was the most widely known man of letters in America, establishing himself as a prolific poet, essayist, popular lecturer, and advocate of social reforms. He was considered one of the great orators of the time and his enthusiasm and respect for his audience enraptured crowds. As a poet and philosopher, he led the Transcendentalist movement, which professes the belief that everything in our world is a microcosm of the universe, and in the infinitude of individual man.

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Le texte qui suit témoigne d'une modernité surprenante. Son auteur, Ralph Waldo Emerson, y développe l'idée selon laquelle la confiance en soi-même, indispensable à l'épanouissement de chacun, est nécessairement associée à l'anticonformisme. Se dégager de la pesanteur des cadres sociaux, apprendre à penser et à voir le monde sans être influencé par l'opinion publique et la bienséance, tel serait ainsi le chemin que prennent tous les grands hommes.

Calling for staunch individualism, "Self-Reliance" is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes: the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency and follow their own instincts and ideas. It is the source of one of Emerson's most famous quotations: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."