WorkFrederic Henry Hedge

“Conservatism and Reform”

"Conservatism and Reform" (Phi Beta Kappa address, delivered 26 August 1841; published Boston, 1843; repr. in Martin Luther and Other Essays

Frederic Henry Hedge (1805–1890)

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Documented 1841

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to William H. Channing

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“The subject was "what part shall the scholar take in the contest between Conservatism and Reform?" And Waldo said he never saw the root of every thing cut away with such sweetness nor any thing to surpass the easy elegance with which he poised himself in the air after taking away all possible foot hold.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Hudspeth identified it as Hedge's 'Conservatism and Reform,' published in Boston in 1843, later reprinted in Martin Luther and Other Essays (Roberts Brothers, 1888, pp. 129–65).