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In the depths of my time, I have battled wits, slain dragons, and confounded philosophers claiming the knowledge of the century. Throughout all of my travels, I had not found one “thinker” who can be considered truly great… until I rested a fortnight in Concord, Massachusetts. There I discovered the veracity that embodied Henry David Thoreau.

In 1841 he began to live with a neighbor and friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson, leader of the Transcendentalist movement. After discovering Emerson’s book, Nature, Thoreau delved into the deeper realms that comprised Transcendentalism. This ideology basically consists of a struggle to emerge as a new class of independent, and attempt to understand the spiritual and religious aspects of life while employing intuitive, rather than rational, judgment. Thoreau, however, is not a great thinker due to his adherence to Emerson’s philosophy. Thoreau’s ideals stemmed from his innate adoration of individualism and naturalism. He was often seen......

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