1847, The Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell (1845) in July 1847 and On Heroes and Hero Worship (1841) in July and August 1847.80 His comments on these works indicate their impact. For example, after reading Past andG. CantorPresent he wrote: `The writer [Carlyle] must be a true hero. My feelings towards him are those of worship[,] “transcendental wonder” as he defines it.’81 Frank Turner has captured the salient aspects of Carlyle’s notion of religion when he notes that Carlyle `conceptually separated religion and spirituality from their contemporary institutional and dogmatic incarnations. Religion for Carlyle was wonder, humility, and work amidst the eternities and silences. The true realm of religion and the spirit was the inner man; all else was unessential externality.’82 By the time Tyndall departed for Marburg he had adopted these aspects of Carlyle’s religious philosophy. Reading Emerson and Carlyle greatly assisted Tyndall’s religious Sch66336 supplier development. These authors not only acted as mentors whose views helped shape Tyndall’s attitudes but they assisted him in framing his emerging outlook and also augmented his self-confidence as the process of individuation progressed. Moreover, some of the human characteristics they emphasized were ones that Tyndall valued as his father’s son, such as truthfulness and the work ethic. Several historians have discussed the impact of the philosophies of Emerson, Carlyle and later Johann Gottlieb Fichte on Tyndall’s later thinking and especially on his conception of the natural world.83 In particular, Stephen Kim has traced these influences on Tyndall’s subsequent writings and what he calls Tyndall’s `transcendental materialism’. Although this paper does not aim to trace Tyndall’s thought beyond the summer of 1848, the arguments presented here are generally commensurate with Kim’s analysis.WAS buy Torin 1 TYNDALLA PANTHEIST?This paper is not intended to connect Tyndall’s religious views dating from 1840?48 with his later philosophy of nature or the opinions he expressed in his Belfast Address of 1874. As historians have generally focused on that Address, the aim here has been to illuminate an earlier period in Tyndall’s adult life and to construct a very different Tyndall from the one generally portrayed. Care has been taken not to read history backwards by projecting his later views back on to his earlier biography. Moreover, this paper’s main concern has been with Tyndall’s changing views about religion. During the period under discussion he moved far from what he saw as the parochial and intolerant Protestantism of his parents’ community and instead began to develop his own spirit-centred religious position. Only towards the end of this period did he begin to devote himself to the study of the sciences and, later still, he developed his own philosophy of nature. It is noticeable that before embarking for Marburg, Tyndall’s journal entries make very few references to nature and far more to human nature. One of the main implications of this paper, which is anti-essentialist in orientation, is that labels such as pantheist, atheist and agnostic are inadequate as descriptions of the young Tyndall. Whether such labels are appropriate to his later career is an open question, but any such claims need to be closely tied to specific historical contexts. Although pantheism is open to a wide range of definitions,84 it is clear that Tyndall was not a pantheist in the period 1840 ?48, because although he often referr.1847, The Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell (1845) in July 1847 and On Heroes and Hero Worship (1841) in July and August 1847.80 His comments on these works indicate their impact. For example, after reading Past andG. CantorPresent he wrote: `The writer [Carlyle] must be a true hero. My feelings towards him are those of worship[,] “transcendental wonder” as he defines it.’81 Frank Turner has captured the salient aspects of Carlyle’s notion of religion when he notes that Carlyle `conceptually separated religion and spirituality from their contemporary institutional and dogmatic incarnations. Religion for Carlyle was wonder, humility, and work amidst the eternities and silences. The true realm of religion and the spirit was the inner man; all else was unessential externality.’82 By the time Tyndall departed for Marburg he had adopted these aspects of Carlyle’s religious philosophy. Reading Emerson and Carlyle greatly assisted Tyndall’s religious development. These authors not only acted as mentors whose views helped shape Tyndall’s attitudes but they assisted him in framing his emerging outlook and also augmented his self-confidence as the process of individuation progressed. Moreover, some of the human characteristics they emphasized were ones that Tyndall valued as his father’s son, such as truthfulness and the work ethic. Several historians have discussed the impact of the philosophies of Emerson, Carlyle and later Johann Gottlieb Fichte on Tyndall’s later thinking and especially on his conception of the natural world.83 In particular, Stephen Kim has traced these influences on Tyndall’s subsequent writings and what he calls Tyndall’s `transcendental materialism’. Although this paper does not aim to trace Tyndall’s thought beyond the summer of 1848, the arguments presented here are generally commensurate with Kim’s analysis.WAS TYNDALLA PANTHEIST?This paper is not intended to connect Tyndall’s religious views dating from 1840?48 with his later philosophy of nature or the opinions he expressed in his Belfast Address of 1874. As historians have generally focused on that Address, the aim here has been to illuminate an earlier period in Tyndall’s adult life and to construct a very different Tyndall from the one generally portrayed. Care has been taken not to read history backwards by projecting his later views back on to his earlier biography. Moreover, this paper’s main concern has been with Tyndall’s changing views about religion. During the period under discussion he moved far from what he saw as the parochial and intolerant Protestantism of his parents’ community and instead began to develop his own spirit-centred religious position. Only towards the end of this period did he begin to devote himself to the study of the sciences and, later still, he developed his own philosophy of nature. It is noticeable that before embarking for Marburg, Tyndall’s journal entries make very few references to nature and far more to human nature. One of the main implications of this paper, which is anti-essentialist in orientation, is that labels such as pantheist, atheist and agnostic are inadequate as descriptions of the young Tyndall. Whether such labels are appropriate to his later career is an open question, but any such claims need to be closely tied to specific historical contexts. Although pantheism is open to a wide range of definitions,84 it is clear that Tyndall was not a pantheist in the period 1840 ?48, because although he often referr.