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  • Nice work! 

  • today im gonna write exam on american literature... Transendentalism is my first answer i gonna write today.. I am sure i will write it in perfect way... Great salute to RW Emerson...

  • no no, not edgar allan poe.

  • What I have learned from it, I have found that it is the single movement that spurred American ways. American thoughts. American literature. This Trancendentalism movement is famous because it defines what legacy these writers like Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman have left behind.

  •  In the mid-1800s, Ralph Waldo Emerson became a leader in a philosophical movement known as "transcendentalism," which says that truth comes from personal insight. Emerson wrote, "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men—that is genius." Sadly, Emerson's faulty thinking took root, and personal thoughts about God replaced God's thoughts and words about Himself.

  • @breshsheet

    You really misunderstand what Transcendentalism is. Transcendentalism is not some anti-God philosophy. Transcendentalism has nothing to do with either atheism, Christianity, or whatnot. In fact, it's not a set in stone philosophy. It's a philosophy that can be tinkered with and used however you please.

  • @breshsheet Respectfully, you misunderstand what Emerson meant.

    Emerson believed that a man could never truly know God by just reading about Him--he had to experience God in his heart. You believe in God not only because you read about Him, but because you experience the truth deep within your heart. Emerson would say that knowledge gained from learning is just intelligence--, but wisdom gained from experiencing something is genius.

  • The Lord said in Isaiah, "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts" (55:9).

    One of ancient Israel's songwriters expressed God's greatness this way: "I know that the Lord is great, and our Lord is above all gods. Whatever the Lord pleases He does, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deep places" (Psalm 135:5-6).

  • He does, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deep places" (Psalm 135:5-6).

    Jesus, the image of the invisible God, is the source of all truth (Colossians 1:15-19). John the Baptist said of Him: "He who comes from heaven is above all" (John 3:31).

    Only God, the creator of all things, deserves to be called transcendent—that is, above and beyond all things. Contrary to what Emerson concluded, truth comes from above, not from within

  • john chapter 3 verses 22-31 john the baptizer said that he fully understood who jesus was 22 After these things Jesus and His disciples came into the land of Judea, and there He remained with them and baptized. 23 Now John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there. And they came and were baptized. 24 For John had not yet been thrown into prison.

  • 25 Then there arose a dispute between some of John’s disciples and the Jews about purification. 26 And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified—behold, He is baptizing, and all are coming to Him!”

    27 John answered and said, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven. 28 You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before Him.’

  • 29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is fulfilled. 30 He must increase, but I must decrease. 31 He who comes from above is above all; he who is of the earth is earthly and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

  • he is no genius who ignores his creator,

    No matter how we think and try

    To understand the Lord above,

    Our thoughts can only amplify

    Our need to know His truth and love

  • walt whitman dam it. how can you leave him out

  • I love this presentation, now i have a better idea of this whole transcendentalism.

  • They were hippies.

  • @zerogravity724 Except, the Transcendentalists discouraged intoxicants and wanted LESS government intervention.

  • This is great!

  • Damn you for including this song, about as anti-transcendental as you can get.

  • these guys are an prime example hooked on phonics didn't work

  • same with you idiot. "an prime"? haha nice grammer, great sentence. you're probably an english teacher who just happens to love WWE right? hahaha fuckin idiot

  • aww are you the guy responsible for these sorry you are all butt hurt because you are afraid of going out side but getting upset about 'this shitty video you made and is really sad

  • it has been a month already I forgot about your stutter as video but why waste my time on a nobody like you do us all a favor and remember that you are a nobody who I will forget and p.s your haircut makes you look like a nvm you are a nobody why bother

  • haha i have nothing to do wth these you fucking cunt. notice the different usernames? hahaha i just happened upon this video and saw your illiterate ass trying to insult people. hahaha dude you really are a stupid mother fucker arent you. alright take you abnormally small penis and stay off youtube while the big-kids make real videos instead of just favoriting fake wrestling ones

  • also thank you for pointing that out and proving that you are my little lackey

  • also great job trying to insult my physical appearence considering you have no fuckin clue what i look like.  next time you wanna get verbally ass-raped again just let me know

  • @Cbrehmes227 hey let me remind you what you are nothing just the fact your response was so fast speaks volumes loser keep writing to prove my theory that you are a pimple still live at home with your grandmother

  • @Cbrehmes227  so thank you for using grammar check the 1st time through okay but I am tired of lowering my self to the cyber gets nobodies later and write back if you are a loser

  • these people need to learn how to read

  • lol

  • AWESOME!! well done, great quotes

  • Very Nice. whats the song name?

  • 5 stars. truly spectacular!

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