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Ralph Waldo Emerson 爱默生 Henry David Thoreau梭罗;A broad, philosophical movement in New England during the Romantic era（peak：1836-1855）the first American intellectual movement. Started by a group of people in the Transcendental Club in the 1830s who published their views in the journal The Dial ; Transcendentalist believed instinct or intuition is the deepest level of man’s soul. They tried to find truth through feeling, rather than through logic. So they write not in a logical way. We can say they formed a movement of feelings beliefs rather than a system of philosophy. ;The world shrank itself into a drop of dew. 世界将其自身缩小成为一滴露水 Believe yourself A person must be able to become what he wants to be ;The major features of  Transcendentalists;1.至善 absolute good 2.纯洁无暇 unspotted innocence of nature 3.人具有神性 humanity was godlike and that evil was nonexistent appeared to be an optimistic folly; Weaknesses;爱默生 Ralph Waldo Emerson;Ralph Waldo Emerson;Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882); Nature. It is the Bible of transcendentalists. It contains almost everything Emerson wants to say in the rest of his life. His later works were mostly to illustrate the book. “American Scholar”: American’s declaration of intellectual independence.( to develop American’s own culture) ;Henry David Thoreau; He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.; Walden; “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” ;Thank you!