Ralph Waldo also lived here for a time and wrote Nature, an essay that embodies the tenets of American Transcendentalism.

BBC: An American pilgrimage to Concord

Just as these beliefs rest on faith, and, supernaturalism or transcendentalism--ideas that supposedly thrive on forces beyond human understanding, but could be rationally explained someday-- like in western religion and past concepts that later was explained or disproved by science, outsiders should not completely dismiss these institutional, African concepts as fallacious or fictitious representations or misrepresentations.

BBC: Most African societies associate a black cat with bad luck

In the realm of the literary arts, Mr. Magill has a field day, zeroing in on Rousseau as the source of our modern literary obsession with sincerity, which the author finds manifest in German and English Romanticism, American Transcendentalism, French Symbolism and other currents that come to look like a tidal wave in favor of finding and flaunting the unvarnished self.

WSJ: Book Review: Sincerity