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9th of September 1836 Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes his influential essay "Nature" outlining his beliefs in transcendentalism. Leader of the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century, Emerson was a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society.
Transcendentalism a 19th-century school of American theological and philosophical thought that combined respect for nature and self-sufficiency with elements of Unitarianism and German Romanticism. A philosophical movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the eastern United States. It arose as a reaction, to protest against the general state of intellectualism and spirituality at the time.
He remains among the linchpins of the American romantic movement.
Remarkably the philosophy falls in completely with the zeitgeist of our ailing world as I write
