What Is The Theme Of Self Reliance By Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Self-Reliance” written by, Ralph Waldo Emerson, tells about how people stick to a certain way of thinking due to the strategy they grew up with and what they have been told and seen. “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” On the other hand, “Various kinds of thinking” written by James Harvey, tells how people have several different processes of thinking, and their minds and thoughts are constantly changing as they grow. These different kinds of thinking are: conscious, unconscious thinking, mind and body, rationalizing, reverie, real, and great reasoning that is explained by both of these authors in their stories. Each excerpt make sense of these learning techniques in its own way.

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” A sentence of the excerpt, telling that a foolish consistency is the act of doing something repeatedly simply because that is the way we learned. Consistently, Emerson tells that thoughts and actions come of what you learn at a young age. Just as every year students in schools do the same work as they have always done. Each year, every grade has set requirements that need accomplished by each student in order to be successful. These requirements are the same each year, all the people in that class did the same activity and people in the future will do the same activities those who came before them did. It