The message of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The American Scholar” was for Am

The message of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The American Scholar” was for American artists to

A) challenge Americans’ faith in progress, technology, and human goodness.
B) stress the role of reason and intellect in the pursuit of the truth.
C) create distinctly American forms of art rooted in the facts of American life.
D) investigate the darker side of human nature by looking at moral conflicts in the lives of ordinary Americans.

ANSWER
C