10 Facts About Transcendentalists

Transcendentalists saw divine experience inherent in the everyday, rather than believing in a distant heaven.

Transcendentalists saw physical and spiritual phenomena as part of dynamic processes rather than discrete entities.

Transcendentalists are strong believers in the power of the individual.

Transcendentalists believe that society and its institutions—particularly organized religion and political parties—corrupt the purity of the individual.

Whether the Transcendentalists believed in individualism or individuality remains to be determined.

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In 1844, the first English translation of the Lotus Sutra was included in The Dial, a publication of the New England Transcendentalists, translated from French by Elizabeth Palmer Peabody.

Transcendentalists differ in their interpretations of the practical aims of will.

Transcendentalists have a deep gratitude and appreciation for nature, not only for aesthetic purposes, but as a tool to observe and understand the structured inner workings of the natural world.

Transcendentalists found that Unitarianism came closest to true Christianity, and had a strong sympathy for the Unitarians, who were closely connected to the Transcendentalists.

Early in the movement's history, the term "Transcendentalists" was used as a pejorative term by critics, who were suggesting their position was beyond sanity and reason.