Part 29

Transcendentalism, chiefly communicated through German literature, 51; influence on German literature, 51; its apostles in the New World, 103; in New England, 105; borders on Platonism, 107; an enlarged orthodoxy, 108; imported in foreign packages, 115; Quakerism compared with, 119; advocated by James Walker, 122; attacked by Andrews Norton, 123; legitimate fruits of, 143; defined by Emerson, 127; literary achievements of, 132; essentially poetic, 134; a distinct system of philosophy, 136; misconceptions of, 138; practical usefulness of the disciples of, 140; objections to, 149; inaugurated the practice of dietetics, 150; favorable to all reform movements, 155; ideas of women, 181; relation to questions of religion, 184; reaction against sensationalism, 189; the faith of, 190-192; asserts immortality of the soul, 193-196; accepts the miracles, 201; its view of Christianity, 204; superseded by idealism, 215; as a gospel, 302; end of one phase of, 332; defined by Bartol, 342; minor followers of, 355-356; literature of, 357-372.

Trinitarianism of Platonic origin, 107; avowed by idealists, 109; its debt to Unitarianism, 113.

Tuckerman, H. T., writes for Southern Literary Messenger, 92.

Tübingen, follower of the Hegelian idea, 186.

Tyndall, John, address of, quoted, 210; objections to, by Taine, 212.

U.

Unitarians, the, belong to the school of Locke, 109; of New England, 110; friends to free thought, 114.

Unitarianism represented in England by Priestley, 115.

V.

Vacherot, Etienne, explains the Alexandrian school, 61.

Vere, Aubrey de, lines on Coleridge, 78.

Volney popular in the eighteenth century, 187.

Voltaire introduces Locke's ideas into France, 61; the great name among eighteenth century skeptics, 187.

W.

Walker, James, avows transcendental views, 120; quoted, 120, 121; his theory of moral intuition, 215.

Wasson, D. A., sermons and poems of, 349.

Wedgewood, Josiah and Thomas, send Coleridge to Germany, 79.

Weiss, John, philosophical writings and translations, 351.

Westminster Review contains article by Mill, 206.

Whig Review, articles on transcendentalism in, 137.

Whittier, John G., under the sway of transcendental ideas, 382.

Wordsworth, Wm., in Germany with Coleridge, 79; kinship between Coleridge and, 96; his poetry discussed in _Biographia Literaria_, 97; preface to his poems quoted, 100; _Ode to Immortality and Excursion_ quoted, 101; the poets of the transcendentalists, 103; lines from, quoted, 141.

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:

Obvious typographical and printer errors have been corrected without comment.

Inconsistencies in use of spelling, punctuation and accent marks have been retained as in the original version.

Page numbers have added for two items in the index which did not have page references:

Plotinus.... page 61 Lord's Supper.... page 363

Quotation marks around quoted verses of poetry are used inconsistently. When only a closing quotation mark was present in the original, an opening quote has been added. When no quotation marks were present, none have been added.

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