American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

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,...

Rhode Island Constitution (November 5, 1842): <PREAMBLE. We, the people of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, grateful to Almighty God for the civil and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a blessing upon our endeavors to secure and to transmit the same, unimpaired, to succeeding generations, do ordain and establish this Constitution of government... ARTICLE 1, SECTION 3. Whereas Almighty God hath created the mind free, and all attempts to influence it by temporal punishment, or burdens, or by civil incapacitations, tend to beget habits of hypocrisy...

William James (January 11, 1842-August 26, 1910) was a philosopher and psychologist, considered by some to be the father of modern psychology. A Harvard professor, his theory of ethics, called pragmatism, considered the distinction between truth and falsity, even in the area of religion and morals, not as important as solving problems. His works include The Principles of Psychology, 1890; The Varieties of Religious Experience, 1902; Pragmatism, 1907. Contemporary social engineering of psychological attitudes has been influenced by his thought. William James stated: <There is nothing so absurd but if you repeat it often enough people will believe it.> 1842WJ001 --...

Connecticut State Motto (1842) stated: <Qui Transtulit Sustinet (He Who Transplanted Still Sustains)> 1842CT001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1842CT001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Connecticut State Motto, 1842. John Wilson Taylor, M.A., Ph.D., et al., The Lincoln Library of Essential Information (Buffalo, New York: The Frontier Press Company, 1935), p. 2067. The World Book Encyclopedia, 18 vols. (Chicago, IL: Field Enterprises, Inc., 1957; W.F. Quarrie and Company, 8 vols., 1917; World Book, Inc., 22 vols., 1989), Vol. 3, p. 1682.