Quote of the day
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
John Campbell Shairp

Born: July 30, 1819
Died: September 18, 1885 (aged 66)
Bio: John Campbell Shairp was a Scottish critic and man of letters.
Known for:
- Burns (1879)
- Studies in poetry and philosophy (1868)
- On poetic interpretation of nature (1877)
- Life and Letters of James David Forbes (1873)