Thoreau

To me Thoreau is a Transcendentalist because he believes that persons own feeling is more powerful than the government. This belief was one of the biggest if not the biggest belief of a transcendentalist. He states several times that if a person thinks that something is wrong then they should speak up and let it be known. He often refers to the issue of slavery and the Mexican war as a huge issue in the country at the time. "Many people think that slavery and the Mexican war is wrong, but say or do none thing they just wait for someone else to say something." This quote is a great example because t shows the feelings of a person over what the government says is right or wrong. Once again he is stating that person’s feelings are more important than what the government thinks. He believes that God speaks through a person’s soul and the feeling that they are experiencing is actually the voice of God and should not be ignore.