How Did Henry David Thoreau Contribute To Transcendentalism

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Amidst a country overrun with diverse groups of people from all over the world, the idea that a common dream could unite them all seems almost absurd. As unbelievable as it may be, the American Dream, gradually developed through the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, has become an ingrained, common purpose for many American citizens. Starting with its conception in John Winthrop’s City on a Hill, the primitive American Dream motivated the Puritans, who escaped Britain to avoid persecution, to establish their own society. Later, after being heavily influenced by the nineteenth century movement suggesting that divinity is found in nature and humanity of transcendentalism, Henry David Thoreau contributes to the Dream a juxtaposed

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