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  2. Transcendentalism - Wikipedia

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    Transcendentalism is a philosophical, spiritual, and literary movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the New England region of the United States. [1] [2] [3] A core belief is in the inherent goodness of people and nature, [1] and while society and its institutions have corrupted the purity of the individual, people are at their best when truly "self-reliant" and independent.

  3. Transcendental Club - Wikipedia

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    Ripley served as the managing editor [13] and Fuller accepted the editor position on October 20, 1839, though she was unable to begin work on the publication until the first week of 1840. [12] The first issue of The Dial, with an introduction by Emerson calling it a "Journal in a new spirit", was published in July 1840. [14]

  4. Fruitlands (transcendental center) - Wikipedia

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    Many of Alcott's and Lane's ideas were derived from Transcendentalism. They were influenced by the Transcendental ideas of God not as the traditional view from the Bible but as a world spirit. [10] Alcott's view of Transcendentalism was a sort of religious anarchism, a renunciation of the world to focus on the spirit. [11]

  5. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Wikipedia

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), [2] who went by his middle name Waldo, [3] was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

  6. George Ripley (transcendentalist) - Wikipedia

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    Ten days later, on September 18, 1836, Ripley hosted their first official meeting at his house. The group at this first meeting of what would become known as the " Transcendental Club " included Amos Bronson Alcott , Orestes Brownson , James Freeman Clarke , and Convers Francis as well as Hedge, Emerson, and Ripley. [ 24 ]

  7. The Dial - Wikipedia

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    The Dial was an American magazine published intermittently from 1840 to 1929. In its first form, from 1840 to 1844, [1] it served as the chief publication of the Transcendentalists.

  8. Nansemond County, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    1903 Map depicting Nansemond County (1646–1972) and other "lost counties" of Virginia. Nansemond is an extinct jurisdiction that was located south of the James River in Virginia Colony and in the Commonwealth of Virginia (after statehood) in the United States, from 1646 until 1974. It was known as Nansemond County until 1972.

  9. Monticello - Wikipedia

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    Monticello and its reflection Some of the gardens on the property. Monticello (/ ˌ m ɒ n t ɪ ˈ tʃ ɛ l oʊ / MON-tih-CHEL-oh) was the primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson, a Founding Father, author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third president of the United States.