Question
Margaret Fuller was the first editor of a philosophical journal from this country, The Dial. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this country, where one philosopher wrote an essay that claimed “to be great is to be misunderstood”and “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” entitled “Self-Reliance.”
ANSWER: United States of America [or USA or America]
[10e] “Self-Reliance,” is by this transcendentalist philosopher, whose other essays include “Experience,” “The Over-Soul,” and “Nature.”
ANSWER: Ralph Waldo Emerson
[10h] Exact term required. In “Nature,” Emerson uses this metaphor to consider a life that absorbs everything and becomes one with it, rather than reflecting.
ANSWER: transparent eyeball
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 60% | 60% | 20% |
Data
| Princeton | Swarthmore B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maryland | Swarthmore A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Rowan | University of Delaware A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Columbia B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU B | University of Delaware B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |