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In Search of Unity in Diversity: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Society and Solitude

In Society and Solitude, Emerson tries to justify the oneness of all ideas and to suggest the interconnectedness of the opposites, such as solitude and society, divine providence and human will, grace and work, self and other. He imbibes oriental religious ideas such as mutability, emptiness or non-self, causality. Furthermore, out of his own cultural background he suggests an ethics of moral action, sympathy and mindful living in the present moment, This ethics becomes the most important measure of human accomplishments in both individual and national levels. He also suggests that mystical experience is not a temporary ecstasy, but the texture of life. He also gives a valuable advice to realize mystical experience here and now in everyday life.