According to the passage, which one of the following is true of Emerson and Fuller?
Julie-VJuly 9, 2019
Answer Elimination
Hi LSAT Max!
I was wondering if lines 20-23 would be the necessary support for answer choice E ("and in many other transcendental writings, including works by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller, King would have found ideas more nearly akin to his own") and how choices A-D can be eliminated. Many thanks in advance!
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Hi @Julie, I'm not an LSAT expert, but I think I can help answer the question (and LSAT max can back me up...).
So yes lines 20-23 are exactly why the answer E is correct.
A is incorrect because nowhere in the passage does it say anything about Emerson and Fuller's transcendentalism in RELATION to Thoreau's.
B is incorrect because they talk about MLK's need to reform society rather than the individual nothing about Fuller or Emerson's.
C is incorrect because they do not talk at all about how Emerson or Fuller would agree with King, INSTEAD, it talks about how King is LIKELY to agree with THEM.
Finally, D is incorrect because if anything, their laws are LESS known than Thoreau's which is why King didn't acknowledge them. Nevertheless, though, the prominence of their ideas is not really discussed in the passage; it's more just assumed.
