Quote of the day
This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
At this still hour the self-collected soul
Turns inward, and beholds a stranger there
Of high descent, and more than mortal rank;
An embryo God; a spark of fire divine.
Lester Frank Ward
Born: June 18, 1841
Died: April 18, 1913 (aged 71)
Bio: Lester F. Ward was an American botanist, paleontologist, and sociologist. He served as the first president of the American Sociological Association.
Known for:
- Dynamic Sociology (1883)
- The Psychic Factors of Civilization (1892)
- Outlines of Sociology (1898)
- Glimpses of the Cosmos (1913)
- Applied Sociology (1906)







