Identify the author: Spending most of my forty-four years in…

Identify the author: Spending most of my forty-four years in Concord, I was actively concerned with social issues and with a feeling for the unity of humanity as seen in my writing. I am in the line of philosophers who have seen me as the origin of the modern concept of passive resistance as the final instrument of minority opinion to fight injustice, which found demonstration in Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. I chose to live for two years in a small hut I built, during which I wrote a major Transcendental work.  

Identify: In this view, the philosophers and writers of the…

Identify: In this view, the philosophers and writers of the Romantic Age 1800s were led to a conclusion by using emotions that through the creation they could go beyond the material world to experience and be at one with the Creator. Nature was an emotional experience rather than a logical, scientific experience. They believed that there was a spark of the divine in every human being and supported the abolition of slavery and the rights of women. They urged people to trust their own inner instincts and to be individualists.