The term defining the philosophy outlined in the following selection is.Man has ideas that come not through the five senses or the power of reasoning; but are either the result of direct revelation from God,his immediate inspiration or his immanent presence in thespiritual world.
A. Transcendentalism
B. Pragmatism
C. Existentialism
D. Humanism
is regarded as “America's Declaration of Intellectual Independence".
A. Representative Men
B. "The American Scholar”
C. Society and Solitude
D. Walden
Romanticism in American literature stretches fromto the break forth of American Civil War.
A. early 18th century
B. Spanish-American War
C. early 19th century
D. early 17th century
The following selection is from Emerson’s work entitled.A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do...Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.
A. Self-Reliance
B. The American Scholar
C. Nature
D. English Traits