WorkAlexander Kinmont

Twelve Lectures on the Natural History of Man

Twelve Lectures on the Natural History of Man, and the Rise and Progress of Philosophy (Cincinnati: U. P. James, 1839), Inferred

Alexander Kinmont (1799–1838) · Cincinnati: U. P. James, 1839

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Documented 1843–1845

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York2records

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

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“Kinmont says, that limits are sacred; that the Greeks were in the right to worship a god of limits.”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

Inferred Fuller names 'Kinmont' explicitly and paraphrases his argument that 'limits are sacred' and 'the Greeks were in the right to worship a god of limits.' Kinmont was a Scottish-born Swedenborgian philosopher and lecturer who settled in Cincinnati, Ohio. His Twelve Lectures on the Natural History of Man was published posthumously in 1839 (Cincinnati: U. James), based on lectures he delivered in Cincinnati in 1837-38.

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Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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“Two younger thinkers, men both, have uttered noble prophecies, auspicious for woman.”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.

Inferred Named explicitly as 'Kinmont, all whose thoughts tended towards the establishment of the reign of love and peace'; Twelve Lectures is his major work. Alexander Kinmont, Cincinnati philosopher, author of Twelve Lectures on the Natural History of Man (1839).

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Notebook 1842

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“From Kinmont's lectures on the natural / history of man and the rise and / progress of philosophy.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook 1842." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (90); Box 6.

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Notes on Rhine Ballads and Catlin

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“Kinmont says / "I never could trust that man nor woman either, and never will, that can be insensible to the simple ballads and songs of rude times.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Rhine Ballads and Catlin." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred The opening quotes Kinmont, expressing the view that insensibility to simple ballads reveals a fundamental flaw of character, and introducing 'this notice of two good books'.