A comparative study of the convergence & interpretation of two phases in the history of American Philosophical Idealism.

Additional Contributors Include William Torrey Harris And Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Transcendentalism was an important intellectual movement in America, influencing ideas and institutions, swaying politicians, inspiring philanthropists, and creating reformers. Frothingham's history of transcendentalism relates how it shaped the country's national mind and impacted its intellectual and moral character.

Piece discussed Margaret Fuller's "parlor" weekly lectures on transcendentalism, and their effects on Emerson.

Examines the philosophies of transcendentalists such as Thoreau, Emerson, and Parker in the early 1900's. Also factors in the European contribution to transcendentalism.