Article September 30, 2002 Issue

Mary Baker Eddy's contemporaries

By Bettie Gray Sentinel staff

Born in Boston, Emerson was the main spokesman for Transcendentalism, an American literary and philosophic movement. Emerson's motto "Trust thyself" was adopted by Margaret Fuller, Bronson Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, and W. E. Channing.

Poet and essayist, Emerson challenged traditional thought, urging readers in "Self-Reliance" to examine their relationship with nature and God and to trust their own judgment.

Until the Civil War ended, Massachusetts-born John Greenleaf Whittier devoted himself to the cause of abolition, joining William Lloyd Garrison in antislavery work.

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