Natural Supernaturalism

Natural Supernaturalism
Natural Supernaturalism can also refer to the book of literary criticism by M. H. Abrams.

Natural Supernaturalism is the name of a chapter in Thomas Carlyle's novel Sartor Resartus, which, says Dr. Stirling, "contains the very first word of a higher philosophy as yet spoken in Great Britain, the very first English word towards the restoration and rehabilitation of the dethroned Upper Powers."[citation needed]

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia states that Natural Supernaturalism refers to the supernatural found latent in the natural, and manifesting itself in it, or of the miraculous in the common and everyday course of things.[citation needed]

Carlyle's theory of Natural Supernaturalism influenced Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, two admirers of Carlyle. It therefore contributed greatly to American Transcendentalism.

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.


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  • NATURAL SUPERNATURALISM —    Carlyle s name in Sartor for the supernatural found latent in the natural, and manifesting itself in it, or of the miraculous in the common and everyday course of things; name of a chapter which, says Dr. Stirling, contains the very first word …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

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  • ABRAMS, MEYER H. — ABRAMS, MEYER H. (1912– ), U.S. literary critic and scholar. Born in Long Branch, New Jersey, Abrams was educated at Harvard University, where he earned his bachelor s and master s degrees and, in 1940, his doctorate. He also studied at Cambridge …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

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  • Miracle — • In general, a wonderful thing, the word being so used in classical Latin; in a specific sense, the Latin Vulgate designates by miracula wonders of a peculiar kind, expressed more clearly in the Greek text by the terms terata, dynameis, semeia,… …   Catholic encyclopedia

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