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They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.
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)







