In 1865, when the automotive industry was still in its nascent stage, British Parliament enacted a law (which later came to be known as the ‘Red Flag Act’), which placed several unreasonable rest...
Emerson was a 19th century American philosopher, essayist, and abolitionist. In the 1830s, through his writings and speeches which criticised society for its unthinking conformity, he laid down the foundation of ‘transcendentalism’ – a literary, philosophical, and religious school of thought. Transcendentalism believes in the essential unity of all creation, the innate goodness of humanity, and urges each person to find, in Emerson’s words, “an original relation to the universe” rather than one dictated by society’s retrospectives.
