Transcendentalism

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doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of the human mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in inspirationm and in ecstasy. He wishes that the spiritual principle should be suffered to deomonstrate itself to the end, in all possible applications to the state of man, without the admission of anything unspiritual; that is, anything positive, dogmatic, personal. Thus, the spiritual measure of inspiration is the depth of the thought, and never, who said it? And so he resisits all attempts to palm other rules and measures on the spirit than its own.
James Freeman Clarke once dubbed the transcendentalists the " club ot the likeminded; I suppose because no two of us think alike." But despite the disagreement among transcendentalists themselves, the overall movement shared similar philosophies. These philosophies rested on the SLockean concept of Idealism and Kant's belief in intuition. In other workds, opposed empiricism, which is gaining knowledge ...

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