To the transcendentalists such as （ ）and Thoreau, man is divine

To the transcendentalists such as （ ）and Thoreau, man is divine in nature; but to Hawthorne and Melville, everybody is potentially a sinner.
A、Washington Irving
B、Emerson
C、Henry James
D、Emily Dickinson
【正确答案】：B
【题目解析】：对爱默生和梭罗等先验论者来说，人在本质上是神圣的；但对霍桑和麦尔维尔来说，每个人都可能是罪人。