It is the belief in the oversoul that caused Transcendentalists to believe that everyone should trust their intuition since the intuition was connected to that spiritual, god-like part of human nature. Belief in the oversoul is also why Transcendentalists believed that humans were essentially good.
(AKA heaven)
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I would say he became because at one point he wasnt corrupt. even if it was just in his early childhood it is still something. at one point he had to have changed
