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Transcendentalism: Philosophical And Social Movement

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Influenced by Romanticism, Transcendentalism is a philosophical and social movement that emphasized the intuitive and spiritual and taught that divinity pervades nature. Transcendentalism had many progressive views such as feminism and communal living, and was one of the most important movements of the 19th century. Transcendentalism developed between the 1820s and 1830s on the eastern coast of the United States. It eventually embedded its roots in Cambridge, Massachusetts after the founding of the Transcendental Club in September 8, 1836. The Transcendentalist movement produced the finest and most prominent intellectuals of the 19th century, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Father of Transcendentalism, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
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