Excerpt from Transcendentalism in New England: A Lecture Delivered Before the Society for Philosophical Enquiry, Washington, D. C., May 7, 1895 I AM asked to speak to you of Transcendentalism in New England. The phrase is a misnomer; out of New England, Transcendentalism had no practical existence. In Germany it belonged to the scholars, and never affected popular life. It began to do this in New England a hundred years before The Critique of Pure Reason was printed, and independently of the causes which brought that philosophical classic into existence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.