The American Scholar

Emerson's argument in "The American Scholar" about American society still holds true today. One reason that Emerson's argument still holds true today is that people do what they are good at. In the article The American Scholar Emerson says " Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is a priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divide or social state these functions are parceled(Something wrapped up) out to individuals, each whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each each other preforms his." This quote is saying man is everything and is divided into individuals who do their job in the society.

Man is divied into individuals. When you take all the individuals and put it into one you get society. In the article The American Scholar Emerson says "Man thinking is one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity convey an unlooked- for wisdom, that the gods, in the beginning, divided man into men, that he might be more helpful to himself; just as the hand was divided into fingers, the better to answer its end."