ectly learn from nature. The past was an interest and curiosity of the Romantic era. Investigation of legends and fables became an issue as well as sentimentality and other such attachments to events of the past. The nature of man was sought to have endless psychological depth and lack of reason. As seen in essays such as "Compensation" and "Self-Reliance," Emerson's philosophy of Romantic idealism and abnormal obsession with one's self caused him to become oblivious to many aspects of reality.
             As Emerson developed his ideas from Romanticism he lost sight of many aspects of reality. Reality is defined by the Merriam Webster Dictionary as the quality or state of being real. Well, how can he lose grasp on something that is real, you ask? By absorbing himself in his absurd and ridiculous ideas and morals. Emerson first began to lose his grasp of reality by singling out practices and calling them unjust. Emerson's mangled view of justice is seen time and time again in his essays. Emerson dismisses conventional understandings of justice for his own more enlightened view. He states that injustice of ordinary justice is that it protects us from the experience of conflict; this is an example of how he becomes abstract with his idea of absolute justice. He then goes on to give a valueless explanation to how justice offends our moral judgment. "The only kind of justice worth affirming is an absolute justice, one
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