Most recent public comments by Student Madison Phillips https://nowcomment.com/users/153805 https://nowcomment.com/documents/391824?scroll_to=3450564 https://nowcomment.com/documents/391824?scroll_to=3450564 One word, in particular, that caught my eye from this excerpt is the word, "an." The phrase "an idea of creation" is interesting to me vast majority of religions that we know today share a different creation story. To note that we have theories of race and functions, i.e how the world works and the relationship that humans have with one another, but not on how we came to be, at least, in a widely agreed upon way shows the divide that humanity has with its place in history, and the actual reason why we are here. Emerson touches on this topic nicely, along with the rest of paragraph 13. Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:47:23 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/391824?scroll_to=3450549 https://nowcomment.com/documents/391824?scroll_to=3450549 My interpretation of this sentence is that Emerson's progressive standpoint towards the beginning of this piece illustrates that humans are multi-faceted creatures who are always evolving. While yes, it is important to understand history so we do not make the same mistakes of the past, it is also necessary to be able not to be stuck in only reliving history and the good parts of it, but being able to make our own and diverge new roads. This is said simply by the repetition of the word "new." "new lands, new men, new thoughts." Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:49:00 -0500