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The Editor wishes to assemble upon the high aesthetic ground... writers ofdifferent schools that the antagonistic views of Philosophy of Individualand of Social Culture... may be brought together. from Prospectus Intendedas a periodical of the Transcendentalist movement Aesthetic Papers publishedjust one issue in 1849 but what an issue it is. Featuring the firstappearance in print of Thoreaus dramatically influential essay CivilDisobedience it also offered a selection of essays criticism and poetryfrom familiar names including Ralph Waldo Emerson Parke Godwin NathanielHawthorne and J.J.G. Wilkinson. An important lost volume of the vigorousintellectualism of the mid19th century this is a treasure for todaysreaders. American activist ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY 18041894 was a tirelessmember of Massachusetts Transcendentalist society and was a sisterinlaw toboth author Nathaniel Hawthorne and educational reformer Horace Mann. Herbattles encompassed the abolition of slavery the rights of Native Americansand women and the improvement of American education. As the founder ofkindergarten in the United States and perhaps the first female publisher inAmerica she exerted a profound influence over the nations public life andpublic institutions. «
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