Quote of the day
From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be
That no life lives for ever,
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Frederic Henry Hedge
Born: December 12, 1805
Died: August 21, 1890 (aged 84)
Bio: Frederic Henry Hedge was a New England Unitarian minister and Transcendentalist. He was a founder of the Transcendental Club, originally called Hedge's Club, and active in the development of Transcendentalism.
Known for:
- Reason in Religion (1865)
- Prose writers of Germany (1870)
- Metrical Translations and Poems (1888)
- Atheism in Philosophy, and Other Essays (1884)
- Ways of the Spirit, and Other Essays (1877)







