Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
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)