The Transcendentalists: It's an American Kind of Thing (v.2)
Published on Nov 19, 2015
An introduction to the ideas and the people of this intrinsically American cultural movement.
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The transcendentalist club
- 1836-1860
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Henry David Thoreau
- Margaret Fuller, Bronson Alcott
- Whitman, Dickinson
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Transcendentalist ideas:
- Man and nature: inherently good
- Connected by the Over Soul
- Conformity deadens the soul
- Value intuition
- Nurture curiosity, "free " intellect
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"It is a mischievous notion the world was finished a long time ago."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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From Emerson's
"American Scholar" speech
(Harvard University 1837):
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"A nation of men will for
the first time exist
because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men."
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"We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds."
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Henry David Thoreau
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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep, to suck out
the marrow of life."
~ Henry David Thoreau
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"Heaven is under our feet as well as above our heads." ~ Thoreau
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Poet Walt Whitman
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"Who makes much of a miracle?
As to me, I know nothing else
but miracles." ~ Whitman
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