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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.
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]
It is one of the essays he wrote while establishing the doctrine of American Transcendentalism. The lecture was read at the Masonic Temple in Boston, Massachusetts in January 1842. [1] The work begins by contrasting materialists and idealists. Emerson laments the absence of "old idealists."
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 ]
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]
Reverend William Ellery Channing by Gilbert Charles Stuart, c. 1815.Oil on canvas. Housed at De Young Museum.. William Ellery Channing (April 7, 1780 – October 2, 1842) was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and, along with Andrews Norton (1786–1853), one of Unitarianism's leading theologians.
Louis Menand. The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001) p. 238-250. ISBN 0-374-52849-7; Article on Marsh and transcendentalism
At the same time, the statute opened the way for new religious traditions. The first Jewish synagogue in Virginia was founded in 1789, Kahal Kadosh Beth Shalome. Construction on the Church of Saint Mary in Alexandria was begun in 1795, becoming the first Catholic church in Virginia since the failed Jesuit Mission in the 16th century.