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In this excerpt from Walden by Henry David Thoreau, what can be inferred about where transcendentalist thinkers searched for divinity?
Every morning was a cheerful Invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say Innocence, with Nature herself. I have been as
sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best
things which I did. They say that characters were engraven on the bathing tub of King Tchingthang to this effect: "Renew thyself completely
each day, do it again and again, and forever again. I can understand that. Morning brings back the heroic ages. I was as much affected by
the faint hum of a mosquito making its invisible and unimaginable tour through my apartment at earliest dawn, when I was sitting with door
and windows open, as I could be by any trumpet that ever sang of fame. It was Homer's requiem: itself an Iliad and Odyssey in the air
singing its own wrath and wanderings. There was something cosmical about it a standing advertisement, till forbidden, of the everlasting
vigor and fertility of the world. The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour.