"Free should the scholar be,—free and brave. . . . We have listened too long to the courtly muses ofEurope. . . . We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds.Then shall man be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. . . . A nation of menwill for the first time exist."Ralph Waldo Emerson, transcendentalist writer, 1837Emerson's remarks in the excerpt most directly reflected which of the following developmentsduring

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