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How does Emerson define genius

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Emerson's 'Self-Reliance' In his essay, 'Self-Reliance ', Ralph Waldo Emerson begins by defining the term 'genius': '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.

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