From Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay *Self-Reliance* (1841). Select the word that fits the blank. "Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to ______ the liberty and the culture of the eater."

Emerson's critique runs: society is an exchange in which members trade *liberty and culture* for *the better securing of bread*. The blank names the thing the members **give up** in this trade. "Surrender" captures the give-up sense: members hand over liberty and culture in exchange for material security. - "Preserve", "celebrate", and "enlarge" all describe **keeping** or **expanding** liberty — the opposite of what Emerson is arguing happens. The Emersonian charge is that society's bargain is a *bad* one — the bread comes at the cost of independence and inner life. *Surrender* is the operative verb of that critique.