Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
John Passmore

Born: September 9, 1914
Died: July 25, 2004 (aged 89)
Bio: John Passmore was an Australian philosopher.
Known for:
- Man's responsibility for nature (1974)
- The perfectibility of man (1970)
- Humes intentions (1952)
- Recent philosophers (1985)
- Memoirs of a semi-detached Australian (1997)