Self Reliance

In this story of self reliance the author speaks about saying what you feel. He says that if you say something to "speak with words as hard of iron cannon balls." What he is saying is mean what you say. Speak up if you believe something then let it be known because that’s what you feel. He then goes on to say that God will not operate through an un-pure person that you have to be pure in your sprit and in your mind. Go against what society is saying or doing, because if you don't then you are going against what you feel and in a way going against what god has in store for you and your life. Then he states that it is good to be misunderstood, because Jesus, Newton, Socrates, and Luther were all misunderstood because they went against what society was saying or doing. But to be misunderstood is to be great in his mind.

All these statements from him are exact points of being a transcendentalist, because they believe in going with your own intuition because that was god speaking to you. That if you believed something then go with it and not to worry about society.