Ralph Waldo Emerson, a key Transcendentalist, saw astrology as astronomy applied to human lives. He believed the universe was symbolic, not mechanical. For Emerson, cosmic movements reflected ...
It was 1864, a year before the Civil War’s end. Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, and author and abolitionist Richard Dana were among the speakers in the ...
Writer came to St. Augustine in the 1820s for treatment of tuberculosis The promise of a mild climate and sea airs brought Ralph Waldo Emerson to St. Augustine in the winter of 1827. However, in those ...
When Ralph Waldo Emerson and his friends hammered out the principles of Transcendentalism in the mid-1830s, the result was a fairly gossamer way of thinking. The movement included a sizable number of ...