to what aspect of Transcendentalism does the quote "The civilized man has built a ccach, but has lost the use of feet" allude to?

Individualism

Explanation:

The sentence shown above shows that as humankind decided to conform to the indicated rules of civilization, building for itself a hiding place that protected them through those rules. In doing so, man lost his individual capacity, following what the civilized mass promoted and losing what made each human being special, that is, losing the ability to use his feet.

postive, comparative, superlative - good, better, best

recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. adjectives (and their first cousin, the adverb) also have a feature that distinguishes them. they come in three states. first, the raw adjective—in its positive state—merely describes the noun modified; it doesn’t care about how this particular person or thing stacks up against other members of the same noun class

this quote could be referring to the death penalty. it's questioning the morality of sentencing murderers to death as a punishment, because it seems hypocritical. this quote seems to be arguing for non-lethal punishment for killers.