... took place during the late 1820s and 1830s. It originated 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, ... : - an individual is the spiritual center of the universe, and in an individual can be found the clue to nature, history and ultimately, the cosmos itself. It is not a rejection of the existance o...

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