Self-Reliance Self-Reliance "Self-Reliance" is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes: the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow their own instincts and ideas. It is the source of one of Emerson's most famous quotations: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." This essay is an analysis into the nature of the “aboriginal self on which a universal reliance may be grounded.” The first hint of the philosophy
Messenger and Advocate "Messenger and Advocate". Messenger and Advocate The Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate, often shortened to Messenger and Advocate, was an early Latter Day Saint monthly newspaper published in Kirtland, Ohio, from October 1834 to September 1837. It was the successor to "The Evening and the Morning Star" and the predecessor to the "Elders' Journal". The "Messenger and Advocate" was established after a mob had destroyed the printing press of "The Evening and the Morning Star" in Independence, Missouri, on July 20, 1833, causing the "Star" to relocate to Kirtland. After a brief run, the "Star" was discontinued in favor