American Transcendentalism is a philosophical and literary movement which took place during the late 1820s and 1830s. ... Nature gives the alert man fresh images and metaphors for language, providing the man with discipline to devote himself to its study ultimate power: "one after another, his victorious thought comes up with and reduces all things, until all the world becomes, at last, only a realized will,.... the double of the man". ... He thought that one learns by studying the world around us. Books should be used to guide and inspire, not to be followed blindly. ...

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