His strength and endurance would be put to the test much further with a perennial line of loved ones dying. After such a traumatic life, you might expect that Emerson, like any other person,would collapse into severe depression, lose hope, and lose meaning to his life. But Emerson was different. He found the answers within himself and rebounded into a mature man. After surviving a mentally hard life, Ralph Waldo Emerson seemed to gain more discernment toward life.
Wisdom is gained through experience.
By 1835, Emerson's rare and extravagant spirit was ready to be unleashed. All his deep feelings, emotions, and thoughts fabricated truth the way he arrived at truth, within himself. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men- that is genius. Emerson fully believed this and supported it by taking part in a new philosophical movement called Transcendentalism. In 1836, his first boot, Nature, was published.