Notes+P.5

1. It began as a reform movement in the Unitarian church, extending the views of William Ellery Channing on an indwelling God and the significance of intuitive thought. It was based on "a monism holding to the unity of the world and God, and the immanence of God in the world" (//Oxford Companion to American Literature// 770). For the transcendentalists, the soul of each individual is identical with the soul of the world and contains what the world contains.

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