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  • The so-called Transcendentalists are not the only people who deal in Transcendentals. On the contrary, we seem to see that the Utilitarians,--the every-day world's people themselves, far transcend those inferior Transcendentalists by their own incomprehensible worldly maxims.

    Herman Melville (2017). “Pierre: Or, the Ambiguities”, p.182, W. W. Norton & Company