C. Personality (and Race)
Though Emerson emphasizes human equality, he has in mind a certain (white, male, bourgeois) subject.
Though he fought for abolition, he bought into "scientific" theories about African (and Mexican, Irish, Chinese, etc.) racial inferiority, and Saxon "imperial" racial superiority (linked to an "excess of virility"). See quotes, p. 30, p. 34.
His views of race were tied to views on history, destiny, and fate.