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Transcendentalism

God Direct relationship with God Oversoul—Nature=God=Man (all are interconnected) Nature God Man

Nature Live closely to nature “beauty is its own excuse for being” Sought it as a place of comfort and reflection

The Individual The spark of God was in all men

Society Self-reliance (depend upon yourself) Live a simple life of moral and physical purity

Literature All kinds: novels, short stories, major forms of poetry

Ideas Individual inspiration Belief in things without proof

Writers Henry David Thoreau Ralph Waldo Emerson

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