| Related sites for http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/ideas/tr-aldef.html |
| Maxwell Family history as compiled by Chery Gunn. Focus is on the Maxwell and Gunn lineages of Virginia, USA. | | Star_Woman Over 140 instant Tarot readings. Online dream dictionary, runes, magic 8 ball, and interactive magic spells. | | The_AIDS_Memorial_Ring A compilation of Web pages dedicated to the memory of loved ones who have died due to complications from AIDS. | | Welcome_to_Our_Planet Our Planet is the United Nations Environment Programme's flagship magazine, reporting on environmentally sustainable development around the world for people concerned about our common future. | | Harvest_Message Database containing Charles Taze Russell's personal publications, other publications that he distributed and publications produced since his death that are references to his work. | | Church_of_God,_International Downloads and information about The Church of God, International. | | The_Wesleyan_Methodist_Church_of_New_Zealand The National Wesleyan site for New Zealand. Provides information on local NZ churches and Ministers. | | Discoverers_Web__Jacques_Cartier Article focuses on Cartier's voyages and time in the New World. | | Cultural_Resource_Management_Technician Online cultural resource management technician program from South Puget Sound Community College, aimed at Native American and non-native students. | | Nobel_Prize_in_Literature_1927 Documents related to this prize which Bergson received. Includes presentation speech, biography, and text of Bergson's banquet speech. | | LegalScans Serving Montana with document imaging and conversion, and records management projects. | | International_Messengers Committed to making disciples of all nations through partnering with local churches to renew, train and mobilize believers for active involvement in reaching the world for Christ. | | Eminent_Domain_Online A community site for eminent domain and right-of-way professionals. | | Merlin\'s_Cave Handcrafted fruitwood rune sets and ogham sticks. | | National_Conference_of_Artists,_NY_Chapter Organization dedicated to the preservation, promotion and developing of African American culture and the African world experience. | | Reality_Magazine Christian magazine explores the state of the world and the Christian Church. Features an archive of past issues, published by the Bible College of New Zealand. | | EnchantedLearning_com__Grandparents_Day_Crafts_and_Cards Offers printable mini-books, greeting cards, and directions for craft projects. | | UHHS_Stuff Connects people who went to Upper Heyford High School, an American school in Upper Heyford England for American military dependents. | | Serach_Is_Model_for_Jewish_Memory Contemporary essay on the importance of the enigmatic daughter of Asher. | | Patron_Saint_Index__Eulalia Eulalia of Barcelona and Eulalia of Merida "may or may not be the same person". |
|
Ideas -Contemporary Definitions--Gray               Transcendental Ideas: Definitionsm Towards a Definitionof Transcendentalism: A Few CommentsHenry David Gray, Emerson:A Statement of N. E. Transcendentalism as Expressed in the Philosophy ofIts Chief Exponent, 19171. "The spirit of the time is in everyform a protest against usage and a search for principles." - Emerson inthe opening number of The Dial.2. "I was given to understand that whateverwas unintelligible would be certainly Transcendental." - Charles Dickensin American Notes3. "I should have told them at once thatI was a transcendentalist. That would have been the shortest way of tellingthem that they would not understand my explanations." - Thoreau, Journal,V:44. "The word Transcendentalism, as usedat the present day, has two applications. One of which is popular and indefinite,the other, philosophical and precise. In the former sense it describesman, rather than opinions, since it is freely extended to those who holdopinions, not only diverse from each other, but directly opposed." - NoahPorter, 18425. Transcendentalism is the recognitionin man of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively, or of attaining ascientific knowledge of an order of existence transcending the reach ofthe senses, and of which we can have no sensible experience." - J. A. Saxton,Dial II: 906. "Literally a passing beyond all mediain the approach to the Deity, Transcendentalism contained an effort toestablish, mainly by the discipline of the intuitive faculty, direct intercoursebetween the soul and God." - Charles J. Woodbury in Talks with Ralph WaldoEmerson 7. "Transcendentalism was not ...speculative, but essentially practical and reformatory." - John Orr in"The Transcendentalism of New England," International Review, XIII:3908. "Transcendentalism was a distinct philosophicalsystem. Practically it was an assertion of the inalienable worth of man;theoretically it was an assertion of the immanence of divinity in instinct,the transference of supernatural attributes to the natural constitutionof mankind. ... Transcendentalism is usually spoken of as a philosophy.It is more justly regarded as a gospel. As a philosophy it is ... so farfrom uniform, that it may rather be considered several systems than one.... Transcendentalism was ... an enthusiasm, a wave of sentiment, a breathof mind." - O. B. Frothingham in Transcendentalism in New England,18769. "The problem of transcendental philosophyis no less than this, to revise the experience of mankind and try its teachingsby the nature of mankind, to test ethics by conscience, science by reason;to try the creeds of the churches, the constitution of the states, by theconstitution of the universe." - Theodore Parker in Works VI: 3710. "We feel it to be a solemn duty towarn our readers, and in our measure, the public, against this German atheism,which the spirit of darkness is employing ministers of the gospel to smugglein among us under false pretenses." Princeton Review XII: 7111. "Protestantism ends in Transcendentalism."- Orestes Brownson in Works, 20912. "The fundamentals of Transcendentalismare to be felt as sentiments, or grasped by the imagination as poeticalwholes, rather than set down in propositions." - Cabot, A Memoir ofRalph Waldo Emerson, 1887, I: 24813. "First and foremost, it can only berightly conceived as an intellectual, aesthetic, and spiritual ferment,not a strictly reasoned doctrine. It was a renaissance of conscious, livingfaith in the power of reason, in the reality of spiritual insight, in theprivilege, beauty, and glory of life." - Frances Tiffany, "Transcendentalism:The New England Renaissance," Unitarian Review, XXXI: 111.14. "The Transcendentalist adopts thewhole connection of spiritual doctrine. ... If there is anything grandor daring in human thought or virtue, any reliance on the vast, the unknown;any presentiment, any extravagance of faith, the spiritualist adopts itas most in nature. The oriental mind has always tended to this largeness.Buddhism is an expression of it. The Buddhist ... is a Transcendentalist.... Shall we say then that Transcendentalism is the Saturnalia or excessof Faith; the presentiment of a faith proper to man in his integrity, excessiveonly when his imperfect obedience hinders the satisfaction of his wish?"- Ralph Waldo Emerson's lecture on "The Transcendentalist," WorksI: 317-32015. "(Transcendentalism was) a blendingof Platonic metaphysics and the Puritan spirit, of a philosophy and a character... taking place at a definite time, in a specially fertilized soil, underparticular conditions." - H. C. Goddard, Studies in New England Transcendentalism,1908.16. "If I were a Bostonian, I think Iwould be a Transcendentalist." - Charles Dickens in American Notes |
|
