Flashcard sets with a 'transcendentalists' term meaning 'those who prescribed to the new ideas in literature, religion, culture, and philosophy that emerged in new england in the early to middle 19th century. distinctly american. protest against the general state of society. belief in an ideal spiritual state that transcends the physical and empirical and is only realized through the individual's intuition, not through the doctrines of established religions. emerson, thoreau, margaret fuller, etc.'

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