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Transcendental science — AQA GCSE English Literature Definition

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GCSE English Literature · key term

Transcendental science

Definition

Investigation that reaches beyond the physical world into questions of spirit and existence. Hyde calls Jekyll’s work “transcendental medicine” in Chapter 9; Jekyll describes his studies as tending towards “the mystic and the transcendental” in Chapter 10.

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AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702

Paper 1

Revise: Science and religion

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