“Each philosopher, each bard, each actor, has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.“
In Emerson's eyes, one should be original. If you are unoriginal in life you are not free, in fact you are entrapped because you have been following what everyone else has created instead. Having originality also means that one must be independent and not dependent on the foundation that people before you have laid out. Originality also entails creativity instead of imitation. Emerson wants us to be creative and use our own experiences to make something new instead of sticking with the past and reiterating what older philosophers have already told us. Emerson is saying here that what the philosophers, bards, and actors do he can also do, that is, use creativity to come up with something new and different-- something never thought of before.
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