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Octavius Brooks Frothingham

About the Author

Octavius Brooks Frothingham (1822–1895) was the first historian of transcendentalism and a second-generation transcendentalist. Born in Massachusetts, he graduated from Harvard College in 1843 and from its Divinity School in 1846. He wrote a number of books, including A Child’s Book of Religion and Beliefs of Unbelievers, and several volumes of sermons.

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