... among a small group of intellectuals who were reacting against the orthodoxy of Calvinism and the rationalism of the Unitarian Church, developing instead their own faith centering on the divinity of man and nature. Transcendentalism derived some of its idealistic concepts from romantic German philosophy notably that of Immanuel Kant, and ... the landscape into human meaning ("Particular natural facts are symbols of particular spiritual facts"). Nature gives the alert man fresh images and metaphors for language, providing the man with discipline to devote himself to its study ultimate po...

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