A great wave of transcendentalism seems to have passed over biological thought in the early 19th century, arising mainly in Germany, but powerfully affecting, as we have seen, the thought of Geoffroy and his followers.
Transcendentalism has its occasional vagaries (what school has not?
What is popularly called Transcendentalismamong us is Idealism: Idealism as it appears in 1842.
He made acquaintance with Transcendentalism and the Transcendentalists.
I call it purposely a passion for the Earth rather than a passion for Nature, in order to distinguish it from the pronounced transcendentalism of the romantic poets.
The names of the disciples and prophets of Transcendentalism multiply as they are told off.
Transcendentalism was, in fact, a reaction against the moral and political skepticism which resulted directly from the prevailing philosophy of sensation.
Their Transcendentalism amounted merely to this, that man had a natural capacity for receiving supernatural truths, when presented by revelation.
The influence of Transcendentalism on general literature can be only indicated in loose terms.
To Transcendentalism belongs the credit of inaugurating the theory and practice of dietetics which is preached so assiduously now by enlightened physiologists.
Transcendentalism as a special phase of thought and feeling was of necessity transient--having done its work it terminated its existence.
It was idealism in its full blaze, and it made the germs of Transcendentalismstruggle in the sods.
I am writing ostensibly for transcendentalists, of whom I am one; it is as a student of transcendentalism that I have been led to examine this modern mystery, equipped as it is with such portentous phenomena.
But Transcendentalism differed from Quakerism in this: the former held that the illumination of the mind was a natural process; but Quakerism maintains that it is a supernatural process, the work of the "Holy Ghost.
With Transcendentalism he must have had large sympathy, owing to the similarity of its principles to those of Quakerism.
An adept in transcendentalismcan hardly suppose that God, free-will, and heaven, even if he postulates them, need exist at all.
This assumption reduced our initial idiotism to a constitutional taint of our animal minds, not unlike original sin, and excluded that romantic pride and self-sufficiency in which a full-fledged transcendentalism always abounds.
They have broken at [Pg 108] last with Christianity and at the same time with the theological and cosmic transcendentalism that was its treacherous ally, and hoped to be its heir.
With that conclusion transcendentalism is complete.
No wonder that one of the keenest critics of Transcendentalism was prominent among the champions in England of the oppressed sex.
The effects of Transcendentalism will be so fully considered in the next chapter but one, that I need speak here merely of what it did to encourage resistance to the new law which made philanthropy a crime.
Transcendentalism has been the inspiration of the century.
There is nothing in Transcendentalismto prevent intolerance.
Transcendentalism had made individualism comparatively common long before in America.
Transcendentalism has become the foundation of liberal Christianity.
Transcendentalism is a swivel-gun, which can be fired easily in any direction.
Transcendentalism had shown tremendous strength in helping people escape from the old churches; but it was of little use in building new ones.
The necessary tendency of Transcendentalism may be seen in the agitation against vivisection, which was begun in 1863 by Miss Cobbe.
Transcendentalism was excellent material for weathercocks, but it had to be toughened by adulteration with baser metal before it supplied any solid foundation for a new temple.
Transcendentalism is an attitude or a point of view rather than as system.
In a certain sense this system did not need to be adopted: something very like it had grown up spontaneously in New England in the form of transcendentalism and unitarian theology.
To discredit the intellect, to throw off the incubus of an external reality or truth, was one of the boons which transcendentalism in its beginnings brought to the romantic soul.
The irony of logic actually made English empiricism, understood in this psychological way, the starting-point fortranscendentalism and for German philosophy.
But to the student of American thought Thoreau's prime value lies in the courage and consistency with which he endeavored to realize the gospel of Transcendentalism in his own inner life.
Always interested in new ideas, even in Transcendentalism and Fourierism, his courage and energy and journalistic vigor gave him leadership in the later phases of the movement for enfranchisement.
The subtle transcendentalism of the Greek fathers was foreign to Latin Christianity; the characteristics of Roman life as reflected in Roman worship are plainly visible in the Latin fathers.
I must say one word about another kind of transcendentalism which was pushing its way into favour in Roman society at this time--I mean astrology.
The tumid nothingness of pure transcendentalism he has always abhorred.
The philosophy known as transcendentalism left its impress on much of the work of this age.
But what Naturalism fails to do, Idealism orTranscendentalism promises to perform.
His transcendentalism embraces the ethic as well as the cosmic side of life.
He was emphatically an idealist, as every truly great artist must be, and Transcendentalism was the local costume which ideality wore in Hawthorne's time.
Thus it happened that Transcendentalism came to be associated in the public mind with any exceptional mode or theory of life.
Tituba, the Aztec Tragedy, character of Trance medium, a Transcendentalism essence of Tupper, Martin Farquhar Turner, J.
The essence of Transcendentalismis the assertion of the indestructibility of spirit, that mind is more real than matter, and the unseen than the seen.
That Transcendentalism was largely associated in Hawthorne's mind with the unnecessary discomforts and hardships of his West Roxbury life is evident from a remark which he lets fall in "The Virtuoso's Collection.
Mr. Emerson, formerly a Unitarian minister at Boston, has embraced transcendentalism in all its heights and depths.
Such are some of the specimens of gross infidelity, which the abettors of transcendentalism in New England, openly put forth.
As Unitarianism ripened into Transcendentalism at Boston, and Transcendentalism produced Brook Farm, so Orthodoxy ripened into Perfectionism at New Haven, and Perfectionism produced the Oneida Community.
The concentrated genius of Unitarianism and Transcendentalismwas at Brook Farm.
As it has been justly put, though Emersonian transcendentalism is usually spoken of as a philosophy, it is more justly regarded as a gospel.
