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
Moses Mendelssohn
Born: September 6, 1729
Died: January 4, 1786 (aged 56)
Bio: Moses Mendelssohn was a German Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the Haskalah, the 'Jewish enlightenment' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is indebted.
Known for:
- Jerusalem (1767)
- Morning Hours: Lectures on God's Existence
- Jérusalem, ou, Pouvoir religieux et judaïsme