James Freeman Clarke(4 April 1810-8 June 1888), Unitarian minister, theological writer, and translator of German literature, was born in Hanover. New Hampshire. He was educated in Boston at the Latin School (1821-1825), Harvard College (1825-1829), and Harvard Divinity School (1829-1832). During his seven years at Harvard he met most of the men and women who were to be involved in the intellectual and religious upheavals of the next two decades, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller. Clarke took up the study of German with Fuller, both having been influenced by the "wild-bugle call" of that literature. After his ordination in 1833, Clarke moved to Louisville, Kentucky. There he prospered and in 1836 helped start a liberal Unitarian journal, the Western Messenger, which he edited for the next three years, publishing contributions by the Transcendentalists. In 1839 Clarke married and, feeling isolated from the intellectual climate of Boston, returned there in 1841. He...