Yeah I think you're correct there
Answer:
By finding ways to make them self dependent and familiar with modern developments.
The answer would be the Pilgrims. :) Sorry if wrong.
Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism in his 1836 essay "Nature". Following this work, he gave a speech entitled "The American Scholar" in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America's "intellectual Declaration of Independence."
