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1 Transcendentalism

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

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

4 The Individual The spark of God was in all men

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

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

7 Ideas Individual inspiration Belief in things without proof

8 Writers Henry David Thoreau Ralph Waldo Emerson

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