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Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Charles Richard Weld

Born: August, 1813
Died: January 15, 1869 (aged 55)
Bio: Charles Richard Weld was an English writer, known as a historian of the Royal Society.
Known for:
- A history of the Royal society (1848)
- A Vacation in Brittany (1856)
- The Pyrenees, West and East (1859)