CONTENTS: AncestryEarly LifeMinistryThe New CareerThe Era of TranscendentalismStating the New FaithThe DialBrook Farm and Other ReformsLectures and EssaysThe Anti-Slavery MovementIn War-TimeThe Prophet ReceivedThe Voice at EveThe Man and the LifeLiterary MethodsLiterary JudgmentsPoetryAs a LecturerPlace among ThinkersUniversal SpiritNatureMind, and the Over-SoulIntuitionFate and FreedomConcerning ImmortalityThe Religion of the Soul
CONTENTS: AncestryEarly LifeMinistryThe New CareerThe Era of TranscendentalismStating the New FaithThe DialBrook Farm and Other ReformsLectures and Es...
American Unitarian minister George Willis Cooke (1848 1923) worked for almost thirty years in Unitarian churches across the United States before turning full-time to scholarly pursuits in 1900. Cooke, a voracious reader who was largely self-taught, attended Meadville Theological School in Illinois but never graduated. A radical in theology and politics, he was drawn to the transcendentalist authors and in 1881 published a critical study of the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Cooke's George Eliot: A Critical Study of her Life, Writings and Philosophy (1883) probably emerged from those same...
American Unitarian minister George Willis Cooke (1848 1923) worked for almost thirty years in Unitarian churches across the United States before turni...
