Ralph Waldo Emerson's second Influence

Ralph Waldo Emerson's second influence in "The American Scholar" is the mind of past. In the beginning, he talked about the books which contained the mind of past. Books can be good and can be bad. The books can hold you back from thinking, and not forward. Emerson stressed on the creativity. On the other side, books can help scholars form new ideas, and books can kill time too. Emerson thinks that each book has its own idea, so each age should create its own books and find its own self according to nature.