Sunday October 13th Peter Scales, Emerson’s Transcendentalism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), son of a Unitarian minister and friend to Thoreau, was a poet and philosopher who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century in New England. Transcendentalism – which believes in part that people can make their own intuitions about ultimate reality – formed an early core of Unitarianism.
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