To put it simply: Yes, I would consider myself a transcendentalist.
My mother raised me to believe that everyone had "at least a little good in them" much like Emerson believes. Emerson believed that all people were inherently good. Sure, people make mistakes. That's natural, but when it comes down to it, we all really want one thing, to be happy.
One of the most convincing arguments Emerson presents is found in the passage, "I suppose no man can violate his nature,"meaning if all people are good, then people cannot be bad, which supports the idea that everyone can have an inner God.
I think that in terms of whose style of writing I prefer, I would have to choose Fuller. She writes quite a bit more artistically, and I am certainly a fan of that. I am also a fan of how she counters a few of Emerson's ideas. She presses that a woman can have just as much an "inner-self" as any man will or has ever had.
