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Ralph Waldo was a leader of Transcendentalism which was a literary and philosophical movement that began in the United States in 1836. Transcendentalists did not agree with the strict ritualism of established religious institutions. They supported individualism and self- examination. They believed that they could understand themselves better if they study nature and their surroundings. Transcendentalists also believed in an "Over-Soul" where all forms of being are united spiritually. 's lectures and writing were based on this philosophy. (Hirsh)
Ralph Waldo was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 25, 1803. His father, Reverend William , was a Unitarian minister at the famous ...

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was not really interesting to them. His early life was not a happy one. He lived in poverty, sickness, and frustration. On April 26, 1807, his brother John Clarke died. His father then died on May 12, 1811 and left his mother to take care of the children alone. One of his brothers died of a mental illness in 1834. Another one died of tuberculosis in 1836. was also not a very healthy person. He had lung disease and periods of temporary blindness until he was thirty years old. (Clendenning)
He attended the Boston Latin School from 1812 to 1817. then started to study at Harvard College in August 1817. He worked his way through college as a messenger and writer because of the financial strain on his family after his father's death. He developed his great interests in literature and philosophy during this time. studied Latin, Greek, and French, but didn't pay much attention to mathematics. He liked living in solitude and independence and said that the best thing about ...

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