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
Mark Quayle (advocate, b. 1841) Man continuously for over 200 years. Quayle was schooled at King William's College and St John's College, Cambridge following which he practiced as a solicitor in London. He acquired extensive property interests Cumberland in addition to Crogga, the mansion house at Port Soderick, Isle of Man which he inherited from his father. Mark Quayle passed away at his residence, Dial House, Slough, Berkshire on 3 November 1928. His body was buried in Cumberland. Mark Quayle (advocate, b. 1841) Mark Hildesley Quayle, QC (1841 – 3 November 1928) was a Manx lawyer and the second son of Mark Hildesley Quayle a