He seems to have been attracted to them at first, and was even mistaken for a transcendentalist by Edgar A.
Yet at heart Meckel was a transcendentalist of the German school.
Meckel, who was in some ways the leading comparative anatomist in Germany at this time, could be at once a transcendentalist and an opponent of Geoffroy.
To show what I mean by this, let me contrast his procedure with that of some of the transcendentalist philosophers whom I have lately mentioned.
The great transcendentalist metaphor has always been, as I lately reminded you, a grammatical sentence.
Inferiority of the ordinary transcendentalist pantheism, to his vision, 174.
When I read recent transcendentalist literature--I must partly except my colleague Royce!
The treaty of offensive and defensive alliance which certain groups of the Christian clergy have recently made with ourtranscendentalist philosophers seems to me to be based on a well-meaning but baleful mistake.
The transcendentalist standing on the streets of New York can extend his vision and look at a street or building in Chicago or Cairo or London, while the surface man alongside of him can scarcely read the signs on the other side of the street.
Comparing the moderntranscendentalist and his pathway with that of the olden transcendentalist with his ascent of travail and pain, we find a profound satisfaction in the picture of power, peace and love of the modern supra-man.
The modern transcendentalist does not love life less, he loves it more!
The modern transcendentalist is a post graduate of the surface consciousness, and uses it as simply a wireless machine with which he registers his deeper perceptions, and with it links himself and his revelation naturally to the natural world.
The transcendentalist in all his particular knowledges is as liable to this reduction as I am: his Absolute does not save him.
I know full well that such brief words as these will leave the hardened transcendentalist unshaken.
Transcendentalist theories left it impossible to traverse by finite knowers, and brought an Absolute in to perform the saltatory act.
If this were fundamentally so strange a thing, one might have supposed that the transcendentalist would therefore "as a stranger give it welcome.
We should indeed remain so for ever did we not set about patiently picking the locks where the transcendentalist has dreamily turned away.
In 1839 he met Miss Maria White, a transcendentalist of noble impulses.
We are now prepared to understand what a transcendentalist like Thoreau means when he says:-- "I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight.
There are passages in his Concord diary in which he refers to the itinerant transcendentalist in no very sympathetic manner.
He is a transcendentalist and a pre-Raphaelite, and exceedingly dogmatic in stating his views.
He was a transcendentalist of the extreme order, and a believer in the perfectability of human nature.
The Transcendentalist claims for all men as a natural endowment what "Evangelical" Christianity ascribes to the few as a special gift of the Spirit.
The Transcendentalist spoke of God with authority.
The Transcendentalist substituted the principles of his Philosophy and the inferences therefrom for the creed of the church, and became a separatist.
Taking his belief with him into the world of history, the Transcendentalist discovered the faith in God beneath all errors, delusions, idolatries and superstition.
A contemporary and intimate friend of Johnson, a Transcendentalist equally positive, but of more mystical type, is Samuel Longfellow.
The Transcendentalist was an enthusiast on this article.
The Transcendentalist was not careful enough in making this distinction, and was, therefore, to blame for a portion of the misapprehension that ensued.
The Transcendentalist rendered full justice to all these, studied them, admired them, confessed their inspiration.
Channing, a Transcendentalistwithout knowing it, was the greatest preacher of his generation.
The Transcendentalist was a cordial believer in marvels, as being so hearty a believer in the potency of the spiritual laws.
But the Transcendentalist at least is belied and put in jail by the definition which is so neat at the expense of truth.
The popular authors about 1840 were mostly Transcendentalists; and nearly every Transcendentalist was a Socialist.
So earnest and able a Transcendentalist as Miss Cobbe gives these definitions in her elaborate treatise on Intuitive Morals: "Happiness is the gratification of all the desires of our nature.
Thus even a Transcendentalist has to submit himself to experience; as he would not do if it were really transcended by his philosophy.
When we find so consistent and warmhearted a Transcendentalist as Miss Cobbe placing pantheism and scepticism among "the greatest of sins" (see her Religious Duty, pp.
We have seen how slavery was abolished; but no one should regret the failure of most of the Transcendentalist schemes.
The general experience, however, was that a Transcendentalist was much more willing to make plans for other people, than to conform in his own daily life to regulations proposed by anyone else.
Ripley, who was one of the American transcendentalist group and a member of the Brook Farm Colony, indicates his own semi-rationalism in his Introductory Note, p.
Transcendentalist theories left it impossible to traverse by finite knowers, and brought an absolute in to perform the saltatory act.
At the time I could not refute this transcendentalist opinion.
The transcendentalist believes his ideas to be self-transcendent only because he finds that in fact they do bear fruits.
But whether more or less indebted either to nature or education, it is to this moral and religious sense that the ultra-transcendentalist refers every question, and passes judgment according to its verdict.
To be a transcendentalist is after all to be only a sensible, unprejudiced man, open to conviction at all times, and spiritually-minded.
Let me quote in illustration some passages from the Scottish transcendentalist whom I have already named.
It is only transcendentalist metaphysicians who think that, without adding any concrete details to Nature, or subtracting any, but by simply calling it the expression of absolute spirit, you make it more divine just as it stands.
Not a deity in concreto, not a superhuman person, but the immanent divinity in things, the essentially spiritual structure of the universe, is the object of the transcendentalist cult.
