, 1876-05-29
LITERATURE.
A History Of characterization in
Nov England.
liz. Letters, and Table.Talk Of Benjamin
Robert naydon.
Novel by Mrs. M. |. Rayne..stories
by Louisa M. Alcott.
revolutionary Times--Books and
Periodicals Received, Etc.

lcTAUtllCftl3 XtCNCASCAt 1AtNt
TrANsCENDENrAL1
rRASsCENDENTAL1sM IN NEW ENGLAND:
nntor ~ q o9xes fe Of HH Tbeoao,e arke
M hsSSs Es% e 2o1H e. 4 a'ssns a.s FL soas a' pp
history Of tho rise and spread OF that pc
ru]tar form Of philosophy termed Transcen-
atutallsu,, which was Introduced Into New En-
r1.ul somewhere about fifty years ago, and In
+. yarious Developments sent out vtta3izlng
influences whose extent md duratton can
scarcely be cstitnntcd, must attract every
thoughtful American. II was n movement set
in motion, on tho other side Of the Atlantic,
.moug the idcallsts and philosophers of Ger
many, and, undergoing notifications as II
p,..ed through Franco and England, assumed
. new aud distinctive phase when 1t encou.l-
tered tho active, independent intellccts that In
unusual numbers had gathered at the time
,rouni the centres Of culture on our Northern
Ieaboard.
The opening OF the current century was par
t]eularly notable In New England Us one Of
those pcrlols In the history Of human thought,
,,ctlrring Mt regular intervals like rccurTeMt
Dayrs On Times great ocean, wien there tB .
sudden aud simultaneous influx Into the world
ot Vigorous and original tntnda. In the year
1880, when the germs III tho Transcen!cntal
philosophy had already hccn tranaplantc,l to our
s.hures, Emerson " tic descendant Of eight gcn-
cations nf puritln clergymon," was n young
u,at, of ~, anil hatl for two ycara been the pas
Tor Of Unitarian Church In Boston. Alcots,
four years hts se,lsor, was engaged In working
out his remarkable ideas of the vocation Of the
eIuea,or, iii Germantown, Pa, Theodore Parker,
still lacking yenr of Ills majority WINS tolltng
IN bIs r,fher,. farm. DUNG more than a mans
.Int d,iy md l;er,,tu. m wifi, lila class in the
Es. ""s' N.u Ns.iS ~ wv" -" y. .". wv
sent"r year Mt Harvard. Margaret fnlfcr, porn
III tho same year with Parker, 1910, '7aa absorb
ed III the study of the llteraturcs OF four 1nod-
~, r,,tt,,s ond NJ classic f3rrccc ond no,nc.
'',1 IN a. l,,a d,,,, Al
lla"l.o'sse, "iol"o. oaen taa ~ ~
At Btwdon Cnllcge, at the ngc VI II, VAS IN Ills
n.!vr town Of Salem, dreaming weird dreams
70 he evolved In future romanccs. Wendell
4.','rs' ; o"s' u, ~ n,.1''. 49, '.a -. - ,onn
At ltar1ash' aeorgc htplcy, porn IN ieo3,-a
year hcloTc Enctso'',-waa presiding oScr
fl1lrrll in Purchase street, boston. lilo elder
n,'t, ,.1,,,a.,,1o ,on-s IT,. aon,,n,,. 1vi,,-
sPen. "'lu lo''o't''e 1eA's' 1i'' ncthe"' "i''-
hlA Henry Chatlhllte, u tAc same age as Mar"
garct Furr, nsw 70, lad received his diplo'nu
at Harvard, the ycar preceding and was rrepar-
,ua h, rutrr ti,r ministry. Thnrrau. hor, IN
~ ~ w.. III, .''n,,,n ~ r,ns,.hs'. 1oss,,ns
lsl', wis st!l' canning snc bc'ool-ooSs te6so,ls
GcorTc William Curtis was boy ot U; john
Weiss was III his It'll, year; james Freeman
Clarke WIS ~: md c, A., Dartu], II.
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i"ert al ~ ei,.'1 ,, pa.L a. s''''S "
earnest, nltoiG sllfits ~noec Esm.ns, boan,iy
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En!"tlay, n fucsi seie.itc, HIM." inn III.
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New Ensinnd. lho athiosfaese III tl,s ioeaity
THs, ey INC sinanatlolis , ln1li mnny tcelnlng
e.'l. easESu "isM s'Geotati9'n fu' anu 1uS' ="
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m s's eafaess protests asaIast eapta' pm.sn
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