Ralph Waldo Emerson , Henry David Thoreau , and Margaret Fuller . The Transcendentalists, in keeping with the individualistic nature of this philosophy, disagreed readily with each other. An individual is the spiritual center of the universe - and in an individual can be found the clue to nature, history and, ultimately, the cosmos itself. It is not a rejection of the existence of God, but a preference to explain an individual and the world in terms of an individual. It is a concept which suggests that the external is united with the internal.
Nature mirrors our psyche.
To man the subject, nature the object, which shared the same divine constitution as himself, presented external images to the innate ideas in his soul. However, both these concepts assume acts of God, whereas intuition is an act of an individual. In Unitarianism , deity was reduced to a kind of immanent principle in every person - an individual was the true source of moral light. Romantic and individualistic in literature . Emerson resigns the ministry of the Unitarian Church - unable to administer the holy communion.