Across
- 2. Emerson calls society a "joint-stock company" that makes individuals ______ to its rules and norms.
- 4. In nature, Emerson's ego falls away and he becomes a "transparent ___", immersed in the Universal Being.
- 5. The "iron string" in Emerson's metaphor represents a person's divinely-inspired this
- 10. The part of a metaphor which is the thing described; "imitation" in "imitation is suicide"
- 11. The image a thing is described in terms of, in a metaphor (“hobgoblin”, for example)
- 14. The vehicle in the metaphor, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
- 16. If you don't put your heart into work, your ___ will desert you
- 17. One of the thinkers Emerson names to argue that "To be great is to be misunderstood"
- 18. When people stick to their opinions and avoid contradiction; what "little minds" value
- 19. How to earn your metaphorical "kernel of nourishing corn"
Down
- 1. Emerson: “Whoso would be a man must be a ___”
- 3. The hidden connection between humans and nature: an "____ relation between man and the vegetable"
- 4. When in the woods, all "mean ___" vanishes for Emerson
- 6. Emerson believed each individual represents a "divine ___"
- 7. Philosophy that values mind and spirit over matter
- 8. “Joint-stock company” is a vehicle for this in a metaphor
- 9. What self-reliance is, as the opposite of conformity
- 12. By "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit", Emerson means that our ____ or attitude shapes how we see it.
- 13. The shared connection in a metaphor
- 15. Emerson believed people needed to reconnect with this to rediscover simplicity amid industrialization