They lived so long ago, yet one can still feel a connection with these men. Like the fact observed in insects, who lay up food before death for the young grub they shall never see. These subjects are also the basis of knowledge upon which all information builds. Emerson feels that books are of great importance. In any type of book whether laborious or not, he stresses that they should be used as tools to expand ones creativity and knowledge.
Scholars don t have to use books as the basis of achieving one s education.
Which is a person who looks at books to expand the mind instead of taking them to influence it. Books should be written from their own thoughts and views that come from their own minds. A person tends to read books and instantly record it in their minds to be the right truth. A person grows up reading books, but one shouldn t believe that it is their duty to believe that past writers such as Cecero, Locke and Bacon always have the right truth. The eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead.