Author

Henri-Benjamin Constant(1767–1830)

Henri-Benjamin Constant is documented in Fuller’s journals. One work is named, all in Journal Fragments, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement: Mentioned
Present in: Journals

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

In Fuller’s words

“I was interested by the doctrines of this school open to objection as they are on every side / One of the striking features is their confidence that / Christianity has already fulfilled its mission. I / shall read one of Constant’s books when I go to B._”

De la Religion [On Religion] · Journal Fragments

When Fuller engaged with Henri-Benjamin Constant

No datable encounters with Constant, Henri-Benjamin have been catalogued yet.

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Constant in Fuller’s reading world

De la Religion [On Religion]Inferred

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

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Journal Fragments

p. 46

mentionedManuscript page

“I was interested by the doctrines of this school open to objection as they are on every side / One of the striking features is their confidence that / Christianity has already fulfilled its mission.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal Fragments." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Fuller says ‘I shall read one of Constant’s books when I go to B.’; no specific title named. Constant’s most relevant works known to the Transcendentalists are De la Religion (1824–31) and Adolphe (1816). Fuller has been discussing the St Simonian school and their view that Christianity has fulfilled its mission.