From Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay *Self-Reliance* (1841). Select the word that fits the blank. "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the ______, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment."

The clause depends on a deliberate inversion of opposites: *the inmost in due time becomes the ______*. The opposite of *inmost* is *outmost* — Emerson is saying that what begins as one's most private thought eventually emerges as something *publicly held*. - "Innermost" is a synonym, not the opposite Emerson's structure requires. - "Forgotten" misses the directional reversal. - "Private" duplicates *inmost*. Classic Emersonian paradox: the truly *inward* becomes the most *outward*; private genius becomes universal truth.