Quote of the day
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Simplification is the essence of abstraction from which objective values are not necessarily eliminated.
Asa Mahan

Born: November 9, 1799
Died: April 4, 1889 (aged 89)
Bio: Asa Mahan was a U.S. Congregational clergyman and educator and the first president of Oberlin College and Adrian College.
Known for:
- Doctrine of the Will (1845)
- A critical history of philosophy (1883)
- A Critical History of the Late American War (1877)
- Scripture Doctrine of Christian Perfection (1839)
- A System of Intellectual Philosophy (1845)






