Of the leadingTranscendentalists Margaret Fuller was the only one to settle.
Founded as a quarterly organ for the group ofTranscendentalists centering about Emerson.
The other undertaking associated with the Transcendentalists is less formally their own venture.
The modern transcendentalists form the corner-stones of the new civilization.
Many oldentranscendentalists lived on in entranced states of divine wisdom with diseased flesh and bodies that shrieked with pain, while they mortified and rejected that divine wisdom.
The greater number of the Brook Farm community were transcendentalists, and we have no desire to depreciate the work which the transcendentalists accomplished.
It is necessary, however, to distinguish between the New England transcendentalists and the German school of philosophy, from which they are supposed to have derived their inspiration.
Wherefore we see that the so-called Transcendentalistsare not the only people who deal in Transcendentals.
One cannot, even at this distance, think of the quickening radiance shed by the transcendentalists over the whole region of religious belief and duty, without gratitude.
Certainly, Brook Farm was concrete enough, and the transcendentalists were, as a rule, interested in social reconstruction, though not in a way to touch popular emotion.
The transcendentalists were quite universally abolitionists, for their philosophy pointed directly towards the exaltation of every natural power.
This principle certainly lay in the ethical {440} systems of Kant and Fichte, the great transcendentalists of Germany.
But it seemed to the transcendentalists that conservative Unitarianism was too negative and "cultured," and Margaret Fuller complained of the coldness of the Boston pulpits.
But if by pantheism is meant the doctrine that the underlying principle of the universe is matter or force, none of the transcendentalists was a pantheist.
Amidst these meetings of the Transcendentalists it was, that, after years of separation, I again found Margaret.
By their very posture of mind, as seekers of the new, the Transcendentalists were critics and "come-outers" from the old.
The Transcendentalists were not, after all, very numerous; and the Radicals were by no means of the vivid tinge of those of our own day.
I want you to let me send you all the books on the transcendentalists that come to the 'Academy,' and let me have articles giving the pith of them at short intervals.
It was a villa much visited by Emerson, Alcott, Channing, Thoreau, George Bradford, and the Transcendentalists generally.
He exclaimed, at some careless answer of mine: "Well, you Transcendentalists are wonderfully consistent.
The essential mistake of the transcendentalists is the taking for their guide the instincts of the soul instead of the inspirations of the Holy Spirit.
But whether I be sane or insane, you cannot fail, even tho you be transcendentalists yourselves, to recognize to some degree by my trouble the difficulties that beset monistic idealism.
Here, then, inside of the minimal pulses of experience, is realized that very inner complexity which the transcendentalists say only the absolute can genuinely possess.
So, thetranscendentalists affirm, the complete absolute thought is the pre-condition of our thoughts, and we finite creatures are only in so far as it owns us as its verbal fragments.
The transcendentalists believed that human mind could "transcend" or pass beyond experience and form a conclusion which was not based on the world of sense.
We are all in a measure transcendentalists when we try to pierce the unseen, to explain existence, to build a foundation of meaning under the passing phenomena of life.
The transcendentalists could not fathom the unknowable, but their attempts in this direction enabled them to penetrate deeper into spiritual realities.
While all the Transcendentalists were not associationists, the family at Brook Farm was yet considered as an outcome of the new movement, and as such was regarded by its promoters with great sympathy and interest.
Margaret's position among the Transcendentalists may easily be imagined.
The circle of the Transcendentalists was, for the moment, a new church, with the joy and pain of a new evangel in its midst.
To somewhat the same effect the German transcendentalists identified and distinguished the private and the universal spirit.
The most heroic transcendentalists were but men, and having imagined that logic obliged them to abstain from every sort of hypostasis, they could not long remain true to their logic.
The Transcendentalists were good conversationalists, that in fact was their principal accomplishment.
He scorned the obtrusive learning of the transcendentalists and he disliked their hard talkative women.
The Farmers were, first of all, Transcendentalists which is to say they were philosophers and not given to repining.
There is another matter to be noted as of some significance namely that leading Transcendentalists were, and leading Pragmatists now are, scholars and university men.
It should be said that not all the Transcendentalists joined Doctor Ripley in his Utopian undertaking.
Whether they were overweighted by their ponderous title or whether they created an artificial atmosphere too etherial for common mortals, the first generation ofTranscendentalists was also the last.
By nature a humanitarian and by earnest study a profound scholar, he recognized a germ of truth in the theory of the Transcendentalists that humanity is suffering from evils which if not remedied must result in disaster.
Two or three passages from this theological discussion, thinly masked in the guise of a novel, will suffice to class the author with Transcendentalists of the advanced school.
The genuine transcendentalists became so in their youth, ripened into full conviction in middle life, and, as a rule, continued so to old age.
The pure Transcendentalists saw everywhere evidence of the greatness of the soul.
In the list of the Transcendentalists Cyrus Augustus Bartol must not be forgotten, a soaring mind enamored of thoughts on divine things, inextricably caught in the toils of speculation.
Substitute Idealism for Platonism, and Transcendentalists for ancient philosophers, and this expresses the judgment of "sensible men" of the last generation, on Transcendentalism.
The Mystics were men of feeling; the Transcendentalists were men of thought: but thought and feeling sought the same object in the same region.
Imperfect Transcendentaliststhere were, who used the fundamental postulates of the transcendental philosophy to confirm their faith in supernatural realities.
It was once the fashion--and still in some quarters it is the fashion--to laugh at Transcendentalism as an incomprehensible folly, and to call Transcendentalists visionaries.
The pulpit transcendentalists acknowledged their indebtedness to him, and the debt they acknowledged was sentimental rather than intellectual.
The number of professedtranscendentalists in the restricted sense, was never large, and, after the first excitement, did not greatly increase.
The transcendentalists gave it their countenance to some extent, to a man and a woman, conceding the truth of its idea even when criticising the details of its application.
The Transcendentalists of New England were the most strenuous workers of their day, and at the problems which the day flung down before them.
Nor is the direct influence of the German transcendentalists traceable in his work--his spiritual ancestors are the men of his own race, the materialists Condillac and Cabanis, and Buffon, whose friend he was.
It was to one of the German transcendentalists that von Baer owed the impulse to study development.
This is, however, an exaggeration, for Geoffroy was primarily a morphologist, whereas the morphology of the German transcendentalists was only a side-issue of their Naturphilosophie.
To what ludicrous extremes this doctrine of the repetition of parts within the organism was pushed we shall see when we consider the theories of the German transcendentalists of the early nineteenth century.
This also was a point to which the later transcendentalists gave considerable attention.
Lamarck's affinity with the transcendentalists was in many ways a close one, but he differed essentially in being before all a systematist.
He does not fall into the error of the transcendentalists and assume that Vertebrates and Invertebrates alike are formed upon one common plan of structure.
The German transcendentalists were more or less contemporary with E.
The close affinity of transcendentalists and evolutionists is shown very clearly in their common contrast in habits of thought with the Cuvierian school.
The criticisms passed by Cuvier and von Baer upon the transcendentalists and their recapitulation theory might with equal justice be applied to the phylogenetic speculations which were based on the biogenetic law.
Hence a new principle was required, and Serres found it in the thought which he probably owed to the German transcendentalists (see Chap.
The determination to link together all the main phyla of the animal kingdom and to force them all into a single mould was common to evolutionary and pre-evolutionary transcendentalists alike.
But he had small sympathy with the Transcendentalists when they began to appear in Concord.
Most of the Transcendentalists have fortunately acknowledged the duty of self-control much more plainly and readily.
Transcendentalists are compelled by their philosophy to decide on the morality of all actions solely by the inner light, and not permitted to pay any attention to consequences.
There we shall see how active the Transcendentalists were in carrying on the revolt begun by Channing.
We have had only one Emerson; but many scholarly Transcendentalists have laboured to construct the new morality needed in the nineteenth century.
This reform is one of many in which a much more advanced position has been taken by New England and the far West than by the South; and the American Transcendentalists led public opinion in the section where most of them lived.
The Transcendentalistswere sure of only one thing,--that society as constituted was all wrong.
He was elder brother to it, and was generated by its parental forces; but even if Emerson had never lived, the Transcendentalists would have appeared.
But theTranscendentalists were neither geniuses nor artists nor complete beings.
In his lecture on the Transcendentalists he says: ".
The Transcendentalistsfound themselves all but stifled in a society as artificial in its decorum as the court of France during the last years of Louis XIV.
In their early life they resembled the Abolitionists in their devotion to an idea; but with the Transcendentalists self-culture and the aesthetic and sentimental education took the place of more public aims.
The Transcendentalists are not collectively important because their Sturm und Drang was intellectual and bloodless.
Emerson was divided from the Transcendentalistsby his common sense.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "transcendentalists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
