Ralph Waldo Emerson And The Transcendentalism Movement

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Transcendentalism is a philosophical and literary movement that began in the beginning of the 19th century that believed in links between God, man and nature. This movement said that all of these shared a universal soul and celebrated connections to nature, shown in Ralph Waldo Emerson's text Nature when he wrote "The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable."
The Transcendentalism movement grew out of Unitarianism, which is a religious movement in which it is strongly stood behind the bringings of stability, rational though, and marks of Enlightened Christianity. Unitarianism would try to increase their relevancy by start to instill their values, and eventually

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