The Radical Club
Radical Club, The,informal association of New England ministers and laymen, who desired to abolish vestiges of Christian supernaturalism and to embody in a free religion the spiritual intuitions of humanity at large. The Club met informally at the Boston home of J.T. Sargent and included virtually all the advanced Unitarian and Transcendentalist thinkers. It flourished in 1867–80, and similar societies existed elsewhere. The Radical (1865–72), an outgrowth of the Club, was the chief organ of the heterodox religious and social thinkers of New England at this time. Contributors included Moncure Conway, the elder James, T.W. Higginson, W. Phillips, J.F. Clarke, Alcott, and E.R. Sill.
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