Flashcard sets with a 'transcendentalists' term meaning 'believed in transcendentalism, they included emerson (who pioneered the movement) and thoreau. many of them formed cooperative communities such as brook farm and fruitlands, in which they lived and farmed together with the philosophy as their guide. "they sympathize with each other in the hope that the future will not always be as the past." it was more literary than practical - brook farm lasted only from 1841 to 1847.'

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