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In the wake of one of the most important presidential elections in recent times, many Americans have reconnected with a renewed appreciation for our utopian heritage and our belief in our own ability to effect significant change for our whole culture. There have been several key markers of this American revolutionary spirit, one of which occurred in the 1800s, led by a handful of key philosophers, writers, and teachers who became known as the transcendentalists. Almost every American has connected with Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott, or Fuller at one point in their school studies, and many a sixties radical was inspired the transcendentalists to go back to a life of voluntary simplicity, or celebrating the Self, or becoming “self-reliant.”
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