This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII. THE PHILOSOPHY OF BEONSON ALCOTT AND THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS. BY WILLIAM T. HARRIS. I. -- First Acquaintance. I First saw Mr. Alcott in New Haven, Conn., in the winter of 1856-1857, when I had completed the first term of my junior year at Yale College. An acquaintance of mine who was ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII. THE PHILOSOPHY OF BEONSON ALCOTT AND THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS. BY WILLIAM T. HARRIS. I. -- First Acquaintance. I First saw Mr. Alcott in New Haven, Conn., in the winter of 1856-1857, when I had completed the first term of my junior year at Yale College. An acquaintance of mine who was interested in a series of conversations that had been arranged for Mr. Alcott invited me to attend, and I did so. I found something quite congenial to me. I had begun to inquire after the foundations of customary belief, and, as a natural consequence, was in a state of protest against many of the habits and practices that existed around me. I had been attracted to phrenology; had adopted the diet of the vegetarians; was an ardent advocate of the spelling reform; looked at gymnastics, water-cure, dress reform, mesmerism, and spiritualism as promising a new and better order of things. I was, in short, in that stage of "clearing-up" which the Germans call Die Aufklarung. It is an epoch of negation, necessary al ways when one passes to the attitude of insight and reliance on reason, from the attitude of blind obedience to external authority. Hitherto he has followed the paths marked out by prescription; has obeyed the voice of the family, the ethical sense of the community, or the commands of the Church, without questioning the ultimate grounds of their authority. They have given him, after a sort, the net results of the experience of mankind; summing up the lessons of life and death, happiness and woe, error and truth, to the end that he, the individual, may profit by the lives of his fellow-men, and reinforce his little fund of wisdom by the wisdom of the race. Through some defect in our system of education, this period of transition, from blind...
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