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.
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)