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Transcendentalism

Many people have theories and philosophies about life in general. There have been hundreds of thousands of books published by many different people on the ideas of people in the past and the present. Transcendentalism falls in amongst all of these ideas. There have been articles, essays, poems, and even books written about this subject. Transcendentalism has effected many people since the philosophy was first introduced. The idea was complex and hard to grasp for many commoners and therefore it was understood by few people, and some would think that the idea was not understood at all and that was part of the idea. Henry David Thoreau once stated about himself, "I should have told them at once that I was a transcendentalist. That would have been the shortest way of telling them that they would not understand my explanations" (Reuben 1).

Even the people that called themselves "transcendentalists" had only their own thoughts of what transcendentalism......

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