Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Henry Charles Carey
Born: December 15, 1793
Died: October 13, 1879 (aged 85)
Bio: Henry Charles Carey was a leading 19th-century economist of the American School of capitalism, and chief economic adviser to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
Known for:
- Principles of social science (1858)
- The slave trade, domestic and foreign (1853)
- Manual of social science (1865)