Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Christopher Dawson

Born: October 12, 1889
Died: May 25, 1970 (aged 80)
Bio: Christopher Henry Dawson was a British independent scholar, who wrote many books on cultural history and Christendom. Dawson has been called "the greatest English-speaking Catholic historian of the twentieth century".
Known for:
- Progress and religion (1929)
- The making of Europe (1932)
- Medieval essays (1953)
- The dividing of Christendom (1965)
- The dynamics of world history (1957)