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To practice means to perform, in the face of all obstacles some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Joel Dorman Steele

Born: May 14, 1836
Died: May 25, 1886 (aged 50)
Bio: Joel Dorman Steele was an American educator. He and his wife Esther were important textbook writers of their period, on subjects including American history, chemistry, human physiology, physics, astronomy, and zoology.
Known for:
- Fourteen Weeks in Chemistry (1869)
- Popular Physics
- Fourteen Weeks in Physics (1878)