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What did the transcendentalist believe?

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Transcendentalist Beliefs

-The spiritual unity of all forms of being with God, Humanity, and Nature all sharing a universal soul, the Oversoul

-The inherent goodness (divinity!) of Man and Nature

-The value of individualism

-The belief that the natural world is symbolic of the spirit world

-The "Lemon Pie" theory (to know the part is to know the whole)

-That Society is the source of corruptive, distracting materialism

-That Man is naturally good, even divine, because of his Divine Intellect

-That Nature is inherently good because it is symbolic of the spirit (God)

--That God, the Oversoul, is the universal soul that permeates all being (much like "the Force")

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