Quote of the day
This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
At this still hour the self-collected soul
Turns inward, and beholds a stranger there
Of high descent, and more than mortal rank;
An embryo God; a spark of fire divine.
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)







