William R. Alger
William Rounseville Alger was an American Unitarian minister, author, poet, hymnist, editor, and abolitionist. He also served as Chaplain of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
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Trending topics shown first"To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius, a vital appropriating exercise of mind, closely allied to that which first created it."
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"When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds."
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