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| | Transcendental Club |
 | | The symposium, or club, of whatever it was (Emerson called it something different almost every time he mentioned it--Hedge's Club, the Aesthetic Club, the Transcendental Club), was gathered at a pivotal moment, just as a number of its members were breaking into print. |
 | | The club was a forum for new ideas, a clearinghouse, full of yeast and ferment, informal, open-ended, far from the usual exclusive social clique conveyed by the word club. |
 | | The year the club was gathered, he published a Life of John Eliot and a short tract called "Christianity as a Purely Internal System." He was a moderate Unitarian, a liberal trusted by most radical sand most conservatives. |
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