riter in their books. He further on continues to state how books “They look backward and not forward. But genius always looks forward. The eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hind head.”(298) Emerson thus believes that all men have the capacity of being a genius. “Man hopes. Genius creates.”(298) But, Emerson does not encourage people to be genius because the “Genius is always the sufficiently enemy of the genius by over-influence.”(298) Emerson believes that “books are for the scholar’s idle times”(298) and the only subjects that he should learn from reading are history and exact science.The action of the scholar is important to Emerson. “Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man… inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.”(299) Emerson wants the scholar to learn but question everything. “The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power.”(300) Emerson also places a value on action. “The final value of action…is, that it is a resource.”(301) Through action man has transformed himself into Man Thinking. “The mind now thinks; now acts; and each fit reproduces the other…he has always the resource to live.”(301)...
