Self Reliance and Other Essays

Emerson Self Reliance

"We love it and pay it homage, because it is not a trap for our love and homage, but is self-dependent, self-derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person." I am unsure what this means?

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Thoreau is referring to honesty and truth being the true measure of a man rather than conformity or loyalty to false government or rules that are contrary to truth.

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