Two authors expressed their feelings, doubts, and predictions about the current state of the American people in the 19th century in independently written essays. They further strove to show what they believed the essential American citizen should become to better his country, his family, and himself. These authors were Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Through their life experiences they formed opinions about how America had triumphed and what the individual could do in …showed first 75 words of 700 total…

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