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Excerpt from Collected Poems of Christopher Pearse Cranch
The transition from liberal Unitarian to trans cendentalist was not an easy one for Cranch there is evidence that he underwent a personal crisis be fore he effected the change. In a letter written to his father around the time that his poems were to appear in the first issue of The Dial, Cranch is de cidedly defensive in his response to his father's con cern that he had succumbed to the blandishments of the Transcendental sentiments of the German Theologists. He reassures his conservative parent that the Views of the New School are not far re moved from the true spirit Of Unitarian Christi anity, and he goes on to divorce Emerson's doctrines from those of Kant and Fichte. Whether Emerson would have concurred with this line of defense is Open to question, but there is no inconsistency with sound Emersonian doctrine in Cranch's plea for a break from the Old theology of the early Unitar ians and for adherence to a strong individualism. His summary is worthy Of the master himself: What my intellect receives must accord with the blessed revelation to my heart and conscience. His father's response is not recorded; he would have been a most obtuse jurist not to have detected the advance stages Of a new idealism that was to lead his youngest son far from his own orthodox Views of Unitarianism.
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