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TRANSCENDENTALISM (Lat. trans, across, scandere, climb, whence Iranscendere, to pass a limit) , in philosophy, any system which emphasizes the limited character of that which can be perceived by the senses and is based on the view that true knowledge is intuit ...

... yalty to ideals. The form of his ideals was modified by the metamorphic glow of Transcendentalism which passed through the region of Boston in the second quarter of the loth century. But the spirit in which Emerson conceived the laws of life, reverenced them a ...

... the era of new sects, of communities, of fantastic proposals of every kind, of transcendentalism in literature, religion, and politics. Not the most fantastic or benevolent, but certainly the most successful, of these was the sect of Mormons or Latter-day Sai ...