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Transcendentalism Discover Yourself in Nature

Social movements connected to Transcenddentalism Improve public education End slavery Elevate the status of women

The Big boys... and a girl Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Margaret Fuller

View of the World Everything in the world, including human beings, is a reflection of the divine soul. The physical facts of the natural world are a doorway to the spiritual or ideal world People can use their intuition to behold God’s spirit revealed in nature or in their own souls Self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority and blind conformity to custom and tradition Spontaneous feelings and intuition are superior to deliberate intellectualism and rationality

‘I become a transparent eyeball’