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American Literature: Transcendentalism Lecture Three A special kind of philosophy appeared in the 1830s in US ----Transcendentalism There was no one precise “cause” for the beginning of Transcendentalism. Chance, coincidence and several independent events, thoughts and tendencies seemed to have converged in the 1830s in New England. 1. The erosion of Calvinism. 2. The progressive secularization of modern thought under the impact of science and technology. 3. The emergence of a Unitarian一神论intelligentsia 知识界with the means, leisure, and training to pursue literature and scholarship 学问. 4. The in