god prevalent in New England fundamentalist
             congregations of the time) whose Truth could be found as readily in the
             eastern scriptures as the western ones. They decided, too, that Truth, if
             it agreed with an individual's intuition of truth, must be Truth indeed.
             Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson capsulized the sentiment that
             lies behind the new masculinism' of the movement. The movement, unlike
             most until then, included not only the feminine' principle of non-
             violence, but actual women (Alcott, Emily Dickinson, et al). Emerson
             We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands;
             we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first
             time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine
             ...