Mayo was inspired by Emerson's writings, but distinguished his beliefs from those aspects of transcendentalist philosophy which his audience found offensive. |
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A daughter of the transcendentalist Bronson Alcott, Louisa spent most of her life in Boston and Concord, Massachusetts, where she grew up in the company of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Parker, and Henry David Thoreau. |
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His thoughts are reminiscent of the transcendentalist principles of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, of whom he was a disciple, praising the spiritual, aesthetic and religious value of nature. |
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Kantianism became known in the United States toward 1840 primarily through the New England transcendentalist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson who was not, however, a Kantian himself. |
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He had public flirtations with Mary Silsbee and Elizabeth Peabody, then he began pursuing Peabody's sister, illustrator and transcendentalist Sophia Peabody. |
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He joined the transcendentalist Utopian community at Brook Farm in 1841, not because he agreed with the experiment but because it helped him save money to marry Sophia. |
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But no one discounted it, including Methodist enthusiasts, Mormon supernaturalists, and Transcendentalist intuitionists. |
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