Transcendentalism

Transcendentalism is a philosophy that two men believed in greatly, Ralph Emerson and Henry Thoreau. These men both expressed their views of transcendentalism in writing. While they had similar views and ideas, they were different. Emerson had ideas and wrote about them, but Thoreau went a step further and lived his ideas.
Both Emerson and Thoreau were transcendentalists, so of course they had similar ideas and philosophies. Both men believed that man should get back to nature, and escap...