Nature's beauty comes through "the plastic power of the human eye" which lets us appreciate natural things "in and for themselves" yet it also finds "correspondences" which translate the landscape into human meaning ("Particular natural facts are symbols of particular spiritual facts"). ... Transcendentalists dealt with other crucial problems like social injustice (Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience"), slavery. ...

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