Frederick Henry Hedge
Frederick Henry Hedge
Frederic Henry Hedgewas 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. He was one of the foremost scholars of German literature in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
CountryUnited States of America
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Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
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Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.
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And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow.