Quote of the day
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Born: December 29, 1814
Died: 1880 (aged 65)
Bio: Edwin Hubbell Chapin was an American preacher and editor of the Christian Leader. He was also a poet, responsible for the poem Burial at Sea, which was the origin of a famous folk song, Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie.
Known for:
- The crown of thorns (1847)
- Humanity in the city (1854)
- Duties of young men
- Discourses on the Lord's Prayer (1850)
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