
A chief event of life is the day in which we have
encountered a mind that startled us.
--
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Still startling after all these years:
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The Transcendentalist: an essay
by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1842. Another definition of Transcendentalism. Yet another one. Or check out
encyclopedia
articles explaining Transcendentalism. Don't miss Ann Woodlief's webliography on American literary Transcendentalism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Home Page: a wealth of resources on the web.
This Emerson page has been listed with Lycos Top 5% of the Web, with the Discovery
Channel's homework help pages, the Mining Company philosophy pages and many other sites.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: quote-a-day from
one of the most quoted Americans (who once said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you
know.")
Henry David Thoreau Home Page: another simple, clear page to find
the wealth of Thoreau resources on the web. Like the Ralph Waldo Emerson
Home Page, this page has been helping students and others with their web
research since 1995, and has been highlighted by many literature, history, and philosophy
web sites.
 Books on Transcendentalism and Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Women of Transcendentalism Part 1: Margaret Fuller and Mary Moody Emerson
The Women of Transcendentalism Part 2: Harriet Martineau, the Peabody sisters, Julia Ward Howe
Some rather strange
essays on how Fuller, Emerson
and other Transcendentalists supposedly "ruined" American education by removing
Christianity from the center
Emerson and Thoreau
were both associated with Unitarianism (Emerson was a
Unitarian minister). You can find links to information on many famous Unitarians
(and Universalists) at the Famous UUs Website
and to more documents of liberal and radical religious history at the Electronic Archives of Liberal Religion
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