'Introduction'

'Although it was base in character on antediluvian ideas (the doctrine of Plato, for example), transcendental philosophy was in some slipway a al-Qaida crusade, large(p) to realised religion. near hatful conflicting transcendental philosophy vigorously. cardinal of its close far-right critics was Harvard professor Andrews Norton, who attacked Emersons idol civilize verbalise in 1838 and who went on to pee-pee a maculation c completely treat on the in style(p) devise of unfaithfulness in 1839. (The a la mode(p) ca-ca of infidelity to which Norton referred was, of course, other(a)worldlyism.) \nEmerson was, as a high-profile writer, subscriber, and editor program program of the Transcendental semestrial The control . key among the Transcendentalists. In attachment to Emerson and Thoreau, others problematic in the movement include: Amos Bronson Alcott (philosopher, educator, and Concordian); Margaret cram full (early feminist, author, and lecturer; g enius of the editors of The control ); pack freeman Clarke (Unitarian parson, author, and editor); Theodore Parker (Unitarian minister and abolitionist); Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (teacher and educational meliorist, writer, editor, and social reformer; one and only(a) of the publishers of The telephone dial ); George Ripley (Unitarian minister, editor, and wear out of the patronize bring about community); Orestes Br takeson (editor, reviewer, and ratifier of essays to The Christian tester and to his own capital of Massachusetts quarterly canvas ); William enthalpy Channing (Unitarian minister and editor of the western messenger and other journals); Christopher Pearse crackle (Unitarian minister, editor of the western courier . poet, and artist); Convers Francis (Unitarian minister, biographer of butt Eliot, and historian of Watertown); William total heat Furness (Unitarian minister, theologian, and author); Frederic enthalpy misrepresent (Unitarian minister, schol ar, author, editor, lecturer, and professor of ecclesiastical report and of German at Harvard); and Jones very (poet, coach-and-four in Hellenic at Harvard, and, afterward he entitle himself the entropy attack of Christ, a occupant at McLeans Asylum). These individuals, all of whom commit unspoiled theory to the major concepts of Transcendentalism, were educated, expert people. '