Transcendalists v.s. Dissenters

Transcendentalists vs. Dissenters In the 1800’s, transcendentalism was one way of belief. Man and Nature were looked at as being good. Ralph Waldo Emerson was one writer and, Henry David Thoreau was another transcendentalist believer. They used transcendentalism in their writings. Transcendentalists believed that the basic truths or meaning of life are found beyond the limits of the five senses. Also they thought that individual’s ability to experience God firsthand like the puritans, but …

…story or novels. Transcendentalists thought that man and nature are good but, the Dissenters disagreed thinking that man and nature was both good and evil. The Dissenters were more of a somber, darker, tragic tone. I myself would have to lean toward the ideas of the Dissenters. I favor that way because to me they views seem more realistic. Man is not just good, it is both good and evil and I agree with that.