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From the context, I suspect that Peirce was using the term "address" in the 1840s sense--"personal address." Which connects to his point that New England Transcendentalism was more of a formative cultural experience than a set of consciously evaluated ideas.
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"[Peirce's first wife] Zina...was 'a romantic, strong-minded, and puritan feminist intellectual, one of a growing group in and around Cambridge and Boston...'" "Puritan feminist intellectual."
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The modern university culture of the 1880s could not follow this way of thinking and behaving. The communication breakdown made the so-called pragmatists conscious of the fact that they had a common and overriding identity.
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