Both Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
A) worked actively in abolitionist organizations.
B) sought truth through scientific research.
C) engaged in civil disobedience to protest the Mexican War.
D) objected to many of society's restrictions on the individual.

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Both Emerson and Thoreau were transcendentalists who emphasized individualism and were critical of societal constraints on personal freedom.