transcendentalizing

Updated: September 13, 2025

But his daughter's view of philosophy was tinged with irony, as was not unnatural in a high-spirited woman who had borne the burden of the family's support, and had even worked out in domestic service, while her unworldly parent was transcendentalizing about the country, holding conversation classes in western towns, from which after prolonged absences he sometimes brought home a dollar, and sometimes only himself.

Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers - Four Americans: Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman