transcendentalists

Many UUs are involved in music, art and theatre, but the Transcendentalists remind us that this appreciation also serves the spirit.

As part of the general glorification of the common man, Transcendentalists launched an attack on business leaders.

Prominent American writers, who became known as the Transcendentalists , were deeply influenced by Eastern thought.

For the Transcendentalists, the appreciation of nature meant being in and being with nature.

The Transcendentalists organized "conversations" through the Transcendental Club and other means.

Most UUs know vaguely of the Transcendentalists, their alleged pantheism, their love of Nature, their intellectual and literary power.

Although not as well known, many of the Transcendentalists were music and art lovers.

Many transcendentalists thought schooling put unnatural restraints on children.

Hawthorne and Melville mingled freely with Emerson's circle of New England Transcendentalists.

The Transcendentalists believed in a process of lifelong spiritual growth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson , the leader of the Transcendentalists , moved to Concord where he met Thoreau .

Books and reading were also very important for the Transcendentalists.

But what is the "spiritual achievement" the Transcendentalists have bequeathed to us?

In addition, the Transcendentalists were not limited in the books they chose to read, and neither should we be.

In nature, the Transcendentalists saw the presence of the divine.

In the eyes of Transcendentalists , government and church came under attack because they trampled upon the individual's rights.

Most of the Transcendentalists kept a journal and the journals produced by them are among their most important works.