'''Transcendentalism''' was an American literary, political, and philosophical movement of writers in New England who held a philosophy which says that thought and spiritual things are more real than ordinary human experience and material things.<ref>[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/transcendentalism Transcendentalism]</ref><ref>[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/transcendentalism/ Transcendentalism], [[Stanford University]]</ref><ref>[http://transcendentalism-legacy.tamu.edu/ideas/brhistory.html Transcendental Ideas: Social Reform], History of Brook Farm</ref> | '''Transcendentalism''' was an American literary, political, and philosophical movement of writers in New England who held a philosophy which says that thought and spiritual things are more real than ordinary human experience and material things.<ref>[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/transcendentalism Transcendentalism]</ref><ref>[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/transcendentalism/ Transcendentalism], [[Stanford University]]</ref><ref>[http://transcendentalism-legacy.tamu.edu/ideas/brhistory.html Transcendental Ideas: Social Reform], History of Brook Farm</ref> |