Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash Transcendentalism was a Unitarian movement that began in the 1830s and lasted until just prior to the Civil War in 1860 or so. But, before we explore Transcendentalism, we have to understand the rise of the Unitarian movement. To do this we have to go back to the early part of the 18th century. The 1740s in America was a time historians call “The Great Awakening.” Itinerant ministers around the country, and particularly in New England, began tra

tobias-bjerknes-IwHtZIVYrXE-unsplash.jpg Have you ever heard two people arguing about the same thing they saw? Each person claims to be telling the truth, and they say the other person is wrong, or they are just making things up. Well, maybe one person is making something up, or maybe they didn’t see clearly what was happening. But in many cases, both people are telling the truth. Just consider what happens when multiple people observe a crime taking place. When police interv