Above all, the Transcendentalists believed in the importance of a direct relationship with God and with nature. Emerson wrote in his essay Nature that “The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face; we — through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the […]
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New England Transcendentalism was a religious, philosophical, and literary movement that began to express itself in New England in the 1830s and continued through the 1840s and 1850s. Although Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amos Bronson Alcott, and others among the Transcendentalists lived to old age in the 1880s and beyond, by […]
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