What is transcendentalism? A. a movement in which people turned to books and rejected the beauty of nature.
B. the belief that a person's intuition will help her spiritual understanding.
C. the idea that the human race is destined to become great through technology
D. a period in history in which people rejected notions of love and beauty

Read the passage below and answer the question. somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer’s day; bony mules hitched to hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. in the excerpt above, the phrase "stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning" suggests that despite the heat, men still dressed up the men in the town were vain men's clothing appeared its best on hot days the men were not accustomed to wearing nice clothes