TRANSCENDENTALISM
A uniquely American movement in literature and philosophy formed as a
reaction against the Industrial Revolution. Transcendentalists followed four
basic precepts:
1.) The primacy of nature
2.) The interconnectedness of all things (oversoul)
3.) The role of the individual
4.) The value of man over the machine
Ralph Waldo Emerson was considered the father of transcendentalism.
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