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| Two transendentalist writers are... |
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| Some changes in technology between 1840 and 1860 were... |
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| The invention of the telegraph, and agricultural machines |
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| Mass production and advances in technology led to reforms in... |
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson believed... |
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| Personal Morality should be followed more closely than the morality of society, the essential self is the recogntion of God in ourselves, Human possibilities are limitless |
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| Emerson held the basic faith that... |
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| The soul's emphasis is always right |
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| What is "living secondhand?" in "Nature" by Emerson? |
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| Emerson made a living as a... |
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| What does Emerson say in "Self-Reliance?" |
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| Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist |
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| Transcendentalists believe that... |
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| All living things are connected through the universal soul |
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| Why was Emerson criticized for his opinions in "Friendship?" |
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| His ideas of friendship were too idealist |
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| Social Criticism and Observations of Nature |
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| In "Sounds" Thoreau describes... |
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| Times he spent in the summer doing nothing |
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| In which essay does Tjoreau advise people to simplify their lives? |
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| "Where I Lived and What I Lived for" |
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| Thoreau was criticized for... |
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| His lack of ambition, his arrogance and selfishness, his lectures |
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| Henry David Thoreau was able to attend Harvard because... |
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| His family scrimped to save up the money for it |
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| What is "Walden" considered? |
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| The strongest statement of transcendentalism and Thoreau's mastwork! |
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| Why did Thoreau go to the woods? |
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| He wish to live deliberately |
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