Walden

underestimated. “Reawakening an interest in the great problems of human nature and destiny,”

authors such as Emerson, Alcott and Brownson, for example, forced the transcendental

movement into the path of Henry David Thoreau. (Spiller, 346) As a self proclaimed “mystic, a

transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher,” Thoreau’s works invite the reader to explore his

intuitive philosophy (Spiller, 121). Furthermore, Walden proves itself to be an adventure based

Initially, the transcendentalist movement in New England was sparked by controversy

with the Unitarian church. Critics began to view the Unitarian religion as based on a set of rules

which could not support their need for spiritual and emotional exploration. The church’s

philosophy was moving more toward rational and reason based doctrines, and away from

“experiment and observation” (Spiller, 348). This included the ideals of intuition, feeling and

mysticism. In “Emerson’s Nature, the original- and probably the best systematic expression of

transcendentalist philosophy,” a theoretical examination is made, attempting to link a simple

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