Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Henry Mills Alden
Born: November 11, 1836
Died: October 7, 1919 (aged 82)
Bio: Henry Mills Alden was an American author and editor of Harper's Magazine for fifty years from 1869 until 1919.
Known for:
- Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (1862)
- A Study of Death (1895)
- Magazine writing and the new literature (1908)
- God In His World (1890)