Reading Transcendentalism: Works by Thoreau, Emerson, and Whitman | Alexandria
Read Transcendentalism: Works by Thoreau, Emerson, and Whitman by Ralph Waldo Emerson . Awakening radical self-trust, Transcendentalism boldly declares that your deepest intuitions contain more wisdom than all institutions combined. When Thoreau retreated to Walden, he wasn't escaping society - he was conducting an experiment in authentic living that still challenges our assumptions about progress, success, and what it means to be truly free.