Transcendentalism+--+Ralph+Waldo+Emerson

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===="To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." --Ralph Waldo Emerson====

**__Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the movement of Transcendentalism__**
====Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American literature Author. He was born on May 25, 1803 in Boston Massachusetts. His father (William Emerson)was a minister and passed away when he was 8 years old. Ralph grew threw the years and attended Harvard and graduated in 1821. He was later ordained as minister in the 2nd church in Boston on September 30, 1829. In that year he also married Ellen Louisa Tucker, and she died of tuberculosis a few years later. He resigned from his position in the church in 1832 when his wife died. He then sailed to Europe and re married to Lydia Jackson in 1835, they had 4 children.==== ==== Ralph Waldo Emerson accomplished so much in Europe. "To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." this was one of Ralph Waldos most famous quotes.One of the most known accomplishments was the formation of the transcendentalism movement.Transcendentalism is defined as calling people to view objects in the world as small versions of the whole world and to trust their individual intuitions.Transcendentalists can be understood in their context. They will write about what they are rebelling against. They take a present situation and attempt to change it by their writing. Transcendentalists believed that the time of literary independence had arrived. Therefore they deliberately went about creating literature, essays, novels, philosophy, poetry, and other writing that was obviously different from anything that had been written in England, France, Germany, or any other European nation.==== ====Another way to look at the Transcendentalists is to see them as a group of people to express spirituality and religion in a way that shows new understandings that their generation made available. The transcendentalism movement was formed in 1836 and really began growing in the early 19th century in America.This movement was an important movement in philosophy and literature. It began as a transformation act in the==== ====Unitarian church, and simply added to the views of William Channing, which was the complete significance of God and the spontaneous thought. It was based on "a monism holding to the unity of the world and God, and the immanence of God in the world" (//Oxford Companion to American Lite//====

//rature// 770).Henry David Thoreau was an accomplished and complex man, he was talented and very intelligent. He attended Harvard as well and was a tremendous impact on the movement.
====Along with Ralph Emerson,William Channing, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Theodore Parker, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Ripley, F. B. Sanborn, Jones Very, T. W. Higginson, O. B. Frothingham, Lydia Maria Child, Moncure Conway were a few of the many involved in the movement .====

The transcendentalists believed the soul of each individual person is identical with the soul of the world and holds exactly what the world holds.
====The transcendentalists also supported different movements such as suffrage for women, better conditions for workers, modifications of dress and diet, free religion,educational innovation and, other various reforms. The transcendentalists became leaders or spokesmen for any changes or movements in the church, state or society.==== ====The impact of this movement in today's society is tremendous. It made a break in the old ideas of government and society and new, modern ones. They wanted complete change with the generation and wanted to abandon customs and traditions in their society.====



**__References:__**
http://transcendentalists.com/what.htm

http://www.online-literature.com/emerson/

http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/X0022B066/