Poe's Eureka vs Emerson's Transcendentalism

By Matt Ehret

Part 1: The Society of the Cincinnatus: Solving a 170 Year Murder Mystery
Part 2: Poe, Beethoven and Houdini VS the Cult of Artificial Intelligence
Part 3: Poe’s Tales of Ratiocination and the Real C. Auguste Dupin
Part 4: Culture Wars: Mazzini's Minions Enter the Stage

“If you want to create a superstitious mystic, first create a radical empiricist”
-Mackenzie Champollion

In the last segment of this series, we were introduced to Poe’s efforts to defend America’s renaissance heritage from the moral decay infusing itself into the republic via a new movement called ‘Transcendentalism’.

In that location, we were introduced to the connection which leading Transcendalists had to the Young America movement then being steered by Italian social engineer Giuseppe Mazzini and British Intelligence. We also were introduced to the connection behind Young America’s involvement with Albert Pike and the Knights of the Golden Circle.

In this location, we will explore more deeply the essential philosophical fl…