Transcendentalism

Her first claim to fame was as the leading female figure in the New England-born philosophy known as Transcendentalism.

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“What is popularly called Transcendentalism among us, is Idealism,” spoke American genius Ralph Waldo Emerson in a lecture at the Masonic Temple in Boston in 1842.

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Like Emerson again, Whitman shares that peculiarly American type of mysticism known as Transcendentalism, but he came at the end of this movement instead of at the beginning of it.

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But this movement, known as Transcendentalism, would have been impossible without a preliminary and liberalizing stirring of the soil.

The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters Bliss Perry 1907

What is popularly called Transcendentalism among us, is Idealism; Idealism as it appears in 1842.

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It is possible that Emerson's so-called Transcendentalism could serve as a unifying faith among a relatively homogeneous people who are already bound by ties of common ancestry and aspiration, yet also destroy their ability to maintain those ties over time.

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Frederic Henry Hedge helped introduce German language studies to the United States, encouraged his Unitarian colleagues' interest in German romanticism which became "Transcendentalism", and promoted a form of liberal Christianity that embraced ecumenism and historical change.

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Frederic Henry Hedge helped introduce German language studies to the United States, encouraged his Unitarian colleagues' interest in German romanticism which became "Transcendentalism", and promoted a form of liberal Christianity that embraced ecumenism and historical change.

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The experiment was one of the practical manifestations of the spirit of "Transcendentalism," in New England, though many of the more prominent transcendentalists took no direct part in it.

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As, with the majority of its friends, 'Transcendentalism' assumed a deeply religious form, there resulted, of course, a grand revival of pietistic, mystical, and magical reading.

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