On Emerson / David Justin Hodge.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 100-101).

Promotes transcendentalism in Americain its precept that a fundamnetal continuity exists between man, nature and God, or the divine. Matter an spirit are not opposed but reflect a critical unity of experience. For him, all things exist in a ceaseless flow of change, and "being" is the subject of constant metamorphosis.Later development in his thinking shifted the emphasis from unity to the balance of opposite power from unity to the balance of opposite power and form, identity and variety, intellect and fate. He also believes that in the individual can be discovered all experience must be direct and unmediated by texts, traditions or personality.