Introduction

Although it was found in helping on antediluvian patriarch ideas (the philosophy of Plato, for example), transcendentalism was in umpteen ways a radical movement, great(p) to established religion. some people contradictory Transcendentalism vigorously. maven of its most right critics was Harvard professor Andrews Norton, who attacked Emersons graven image School cut across in 1838 and who went on to produce a piece title Discourse on the Latest version of Infidelity in 1839. (The latest variety show of infidelity to which Norton referred was, of course, Transcendentalism.) \nEmerson was, as a high-profile writer, proofreader, and editor in chief of the Transcendental semimonthly The control . cardinal among the Transcendentalists. In accompaniment to Emerson and Thoreau, early(a)s involved in the movement include: Amos Bronson Alcott (philosopher, educator, and Concordian); Margaret Fuller (early feminist, author, and lecturer; one of the editors of The dial ) ; James freewoman Clarke (Unitarian rector, author, and editor); Theodore Parker (Unitarian minister and abolitionist); Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (teacher and educational crusader, writer, editor, and social reformer; one of the publishers of The Dial ); George Ripley (Unitarian minister, editor, and founder of the back up Farm community); Orestes Brownson (editor, reviewer, and subscriber of essays to The Christian tester and to his own capital of Massachusetts Quarterly look backward ); William heat content Channing (Unitarian minister and editor of the westward courier and other journals); Christopher Pearse Cranch (Unitarian minister, editor of the Western Messenger . poet, and artist); Convers Francis (Unitarian minister, biographer of John Eliot, and historian of Watertown); William Henry Furness (Unitarian minister, theologian, and author); Frederic Henry Hedge (Unitarian minister, scholar, author, editor, lecturer, and professor of ecclesiastical autobiography and of G erman at Harvard); and Jones Very (poet, private instructor in classical at Harvard, and, by and by he proclaim himself the second advent of Christ, a resident physician at McLeans Asylum). These individuals, alone of whom devoted stark thought to the study concepts of Transcendentalism, were educated, intellectual people.