American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Gerard Manley Hopkins (July 28, 1844-June 8, 1889) was an English poet and artist. He was professor of classics at the University College in Dublin. The death of five nuns in a shipwreck in 1875 inspired him to composed The Wreck of the Deutschland, in which he stated in No. 28: <Thou mastering me God! giver of breath and bread; World's strand, sway of the sea; Lord of the living and dead; Thou hast bound bones and veins in me, fastened me flesh, And after it almost unmade, what with dread, Thy doing: and dost thou touch me afresh? Over again...

Alexander MacAlister (April 9, 1844-1919) was a professor of Anatomy at Cambridge, and an author of textbooks in physiology and zoology. He related: <I think the widespread impression of the agnosticism of scientific men is largely due to the attitude taken up by a few of the great popularizers of science, like Tyndall and Huxley. It has been my experience that the disbelief in the revelation that God has given, in the life and work, death and resurrection of our Savior, is more prevalent among what I may call the camp followers of science than amongst those to whom scientific work...

United States Supreme Court (1844) in the case of Vidal v. Girard's Executors, 43 U.S. (How. 2) 126, 127, 132, Justice Joseph Story delivered the Court's opinion. The case concerned one Stephen Girard, a deist from France, who had moved to Philadelphia and later died. In his Last Will and Testament, he left his entire estate, valued at over $7 million, to establish an orphanage and school, with the stipulation that no religious influence be allowed. The city rejected the proposal, as their lawyers declared: <The plan of education proposed is anti-christian, and therefore repugnant to the law....The purest principles of...

Connecticut Petition (1843) presented by Jews of Hartford, Connecticut: <Resulted in Jews being permitted the right to public worship. The State's first synagogue was built on Charter Oak Avenue. Methodists were permitted to the right to public worship the same year.> 1843CT001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1843CT001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Connecticut Petition, 1843, presented by Jews of Hartford, CT.

John William Strutt (November 12, 1842-June 30, 1919) 3rd Baron Rayleigh, was a scientist at Cambridge, 1879-84; a member of the Royal Institution, 1887-1905; and the chancellor of Cambridge, 1908-19. He was the co-discoverer of Argon, 1895; as well as other rare gases. He pioneered the studies of electromagnetic wave motion, optics, sonics, gas dynamics, as well as perfecting similitude and dimensional analysis as scientific tools. A pioneer in developing molecular acoustics, Lord Rayleigh John Strutt was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. In the introduction to his published papers, he stated: <The works of the Lord are great,...