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OCR: ranscendentalsts mid -nineteen th-century anmencar literary movement founded on philosophical idealism The New England group included Ralph Waldo Emerson Bronson Alcott. Henry David Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller. The Transcendentalists holding that primar intu- itions like space and time undernined the certainty ofall empirical description, rejected the prevailing scientific ra- tiona alism Their inspiration came from Kant, Hegel, Carlyle and Coleridge As outspoken antiformalists, they each wrate in an idiosyncratic manner Emerson's The Transcendentalist (1842) summed up the group' credo: Life is an eternal struggle between idealists and materialists between those who believe in facts (history) and thase whe value thought and will. ,Like Van Gogh the Transcenden- talists were committed ta s ...