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Introduction ix A Note on the Text xxix /. THE VANGUARD William Ellery Channing, Unitarian Christianity 33 William Ellery Charming, On the Evidences of Revealed Religion 45 William Ellery Channing, Likeness to God 54 Sampson Reed, On Genius 67 Sampson Reed, Observations on the Growth of the Mind 73 Bronson Alcott, Journals 92 James Marsh, Preliminary Essay to Coleridge's Aids to Reflection 105 Addendum: S. T. Colleridge, On the Difference in Kind of Reason and the Understanding 113 Frederic Henry Hedge, Coleridge's Literary Character—German Metaphysics 119 //. THE NEW SCHOOL Bronson Alcott, The Doctrine and Discipline of Human Culture 131 Orestes A. Brownson, Cousin's Philosophy 144 V vi CONTENTS George Ripley, Martineaus Rationale 157 Orestes A. Brownson, New Views of Christianityy Society, and the Church 164 George Ripley, Discourses on the Philosophy of Religion 180 Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Record of a School 188 Andrews Norton, A Discourse on the Latest Form of Infidelity 203 George Ripley, The Latest Form of Infidelity Examined 210 George Ripley, A Third Letter to Mr. Andrews Norton 215 James Freeman Clarke, Jones Very 219 Jones Very, Epic Poetry 222 Jones Very, Shakespeare 228 Jones Very, Hamlet 234 Jones Very, Poems 240 Orestes A. Brownson, American Literature 246 Orestes A. Brownson, The Laboring Classes 254 Theodore Parker, The Transient and Permanent in Christianity 274 Theodore Parker, A Sermon of Slavery 290 IE. THE VOICE OFTHE DIAL R. W. Emerson and Margaret Fuller, The Editors to the Reader 299 Margaret Fuller, A Short Essay on Critics 303 John Sullivan Dwight, The Religion of Beauty 310 Bronson Alcott, Orphic Sayings 314 Frederic Henry Hedge, Questionings 324 Theodore Parker, German Literature 326 CONTENTS vii Christopher Pearse Cranch, Glimmerings 330 Margaret Fuller, A Dialogue: Poet, Critic 334 Theodore Parker, Thoughts on Labor 337 Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Christ ys Idea of Society 342 R. W. Emerson and Albert Brisbane, Fourierism and the Socialists 346 R. W. Emerson, On Student Rebellions at Harvard 355 H. D. Thoreau, Anacreon 357 Margaret Fuller, The Great Lawsuit: Man vs. Men, Woman vs. Women 363 Samuel Gray Ward, Notes on Art and Architecture 373 W. THE BROOK FARM EXPERIMENT George Ripley, Letter to R. W. Emerson 379 R. W. Emerson, Reply to George Ripley 383 Letter from a Minister 385 George Ripley, Reply to an Inquiry 387 George Ripley, Letter on Association 389 Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Plan of the West Roxbury Community 391 Introductory Statement to the Revised Constitution of Brook Farm 398 V. FULL CIRCLE Orestes A. Brownson, Transcendentalism 405 Theodore Parker, Theodore Parker's Ex- perience as a Minister 414
About the Authors 425 Selected Bibliography 432 This page intentionally left blank