... american intellectuals was called Transcendental Club founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson in Boston in 1836. Apart from the founder of the club the most important representatives there were: Henry David Thoreau, Amos Branson Alcott, Margaret Fuller and Elizabeth Peabody. Transcendentalists thought that the intuitive faculty, instead of rational or sensical, became the means for a conscious union of the individual ... and an expression of his own awereness of the importance of the present moment. His understanding of self-reliance enabled him to appreciate the resisting independence and integr...

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