1.in the opening section, what does the author emphasize with the use of the word harnessed? How is this a more effective word choice than "used"? *

Ralph waldo emerson  wrote several books of essays, commonly associated with  transcendentalism  and  romanticism. "essays" most commonly refers to his first two series of essays: essays: first seriesessays: second seriessome of the most notable essays of these two collections are  self-reliance,  compensation,  the over-soul,  circles,  the poet,  experience, and  politics.emerson later wrote several more books of essays including  representative men,  english traits,  the conduct of life  and  society and solitude. emerson's first published essay,  nature, was published in 1836, before the first and second series.