1. The Transcendentalists believes that the fundamental truths of existence could not be learned through the senses, but grasped only through intuition.


2. The Transcendentalists believed in an Oversoul: the idea that there is a spiritual connection between God, nature and people.

3.The Transcendentalists revered (praised) nature.

4. The Transcendentalists celebrated individuality and non-conformity.

5.The Transcendentalists advocated an active participation in making social and political change, and supported equality.

6. The Transcendentalists wanted to create something distinctly American.

Famous Transcendentalist Writers

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry David Thoreau

Walt Whitman

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Herman Melville

Amos Bronson Alcott

William Ellery Channing

Margaret Fuller

Transcendentalism Ideas