Intellectual Origins Of Antebellum Reform
But the idea which now begins to agitate society has a wider scope than our daily employments, our households, and the institutions of property. We are to revise the whole of our social structure, the state, the school, religion, marriage, trade, science, and explore their foundations in our own nature; we are to see that the world not only fitted the former men, but fits us, and to clear ourselves of every usage which has not its roots in our own mind. What is a man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made; a renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good, imitating that great Nature which embosoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, and with every pulsation a new life?
Which of the following nineteenth-century movements most directly contributed to calls for the reform of societal norms and institutions?
A
Industrialization’s acceleration and widespread urban growth.
B
Debates around the balance of power between states and the federal government.
C
The growing opposition to slavery and push for abolition.
D
The rise of transcendentalism with its emphasis on individualism and self-reliance.
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