Read the excerpt below and answer the question. in every work of genlus we recogntze our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain
allenated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide
by our spontaneous Impression with good-humored Inflexibility then most when the whole cry of volces is on
the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought
and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
In "Self-Reliance," Emerson further develops the idea presented in this excerpt by explaining how Imitation is
the appreciation of the classics
a source of peacefulness
a form of religion
the lack of trust in onesel