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Marsh, James

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Marsh, James (1794–1842),born in Vermont, graduated from Dartmouth (1817), and became a Congregational minister and professor of languages. He was president of the University of Vermont (1826–33). Opposed to both revivalism and stern Calvinism, he sought a religion that would “satisfy the heart as well as the head,” and edited Coleridge's Aids to Reflection (1829), adopting its distinctions between reason and understanding. This work and his preliminary essay to it had a formative influence on the Transcendentalist movement.

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