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Transcendentalist's Viewpoint Found In A Variety Of Literature
"I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil--to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society." (Henry David Thoreau) Thoreau uses this line to begin "Walking," in which he explains his Transcendentalistic viewpoints. Transcendentalism is a term that is very hard to define, although there are many writers, philosophers, and theologists that belong to this category. Transcendentalism was a reaction against eighteenth-century rationalism and the confining religious practices of the New England Church, not only literary but philosophically as well. The people were trying to rebel against the thought control that had taken place in the previous century. Ralph Waldo Emerson defines this reaction during a lecture in 1842: "The Transcendentalist . . . believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of the human mind to new influx of light and power. He believes in......
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