Recollection of Mystical Experiences – She can not go back to having no point in life. She knew that she had great power, now she knows where its going.... how to use it.
Her original mystical experience happened after she left church, touched by God in nature, rather than in the presence of man.
Great Lawsuit – Can not move forward with society, societies gain, growth comes from the development, thinking of individual minds...
How can society move forward if it is holding the the development of half the society (i.e. the feminine mind)?
“Were this done, and a slight temporary fermentation allowed to subside, we believe that the Divine would ascend into nature to a height unknown in the history of past ages, and nature, thus instructed, would regulate the spheres not only so as to avoid collision, but to bring forth ravishing harmony.”
“No, because the position I early was enabled to take, was one of self-reliance.”
I think that he “Self-reliant, self-dependent” religion is a very modern idea. She has to be alone, she knows that the experience and relationship with God is all upon her and her alone, and the thought of by reaching into the all with herself she feels completed.
Even Fuller was criticized, in her day, for being more of a talker in her day than an activist.
American Literature
Calling for a type of independent thinking as a whole, not thoughts and books that imitate English thinking.... copying things that Emerson was saying, and that she was saying in prior works about thinking independently, and putting it towards literature.
Utopia – Emerson? Thoreau? Fuller (perfect ravishing harmony with the sexes without collision)?
Died on a boat 100 yards out to sea with her maybe husband and infant child. He was an Italian Revolutionary supporter.... she was a New York Times correspondent at the time.
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