Self Reliance

The scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is man thinking in a regenerate state. When the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking. So then we get what you describe as the main influences the scholar receives write nature, past books and actions. We ivein taif we did the schopenhour episode exactly on this. The point of the past books is pretty obvious. Don't let them dominate you. E books are supposed to inspire you, not smother you. And if you were to critique emerson I think you could say a lot about self reliance and isolation to an