Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
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)