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How is the concept of friendship portrayed in both Society and Solitude and Chapter I of Nature?
Friendship is considered to be preferable to solitude.
Friendship is considered to be valuable but not necessarily vital.
Friendship is considered to be crucial to society.
Friendship is considered to be a worthless relationship.
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Friendship is considered to be valuable but not necessarily vital.
Explanation: In Nature (Chapter I) Emerson emphasizes individual communion with the natural world and the importance of solitude for spiritual insight. In Society and Solitude (especially the essay “Friendship”) he praises deep friendship as a high and precious human good, but he also insists it must be balanced with self-reliance and time alone. So Emerson treats friendship as important and enriching, but not indispensable in the way solitude and personal contact with nature are.
Explanation: In Nature (Chapter I) Emerson emphasizes individual communion with the natural world and the importance of solitude for spiritual insight. In Society and Solitude (especially the essay “Friendship”) he praises deep friendship as a high and precious human good, but he also insists it must be balanced with self-reliance and time alone. So Emerson treats friendship as important and enriching, but not indispensable in the way solitude and personal contact with nature are.
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