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.
Paul Blanshard

Born: August 27, 1892
Died: January 27, 1980 (aged 87)
Bio: Paul Beecher Blanshard was an American author, assistant editor of The Nation magazine, lawyer, socialist, secular humanist, and from 1949 an outspoken critic of Catholicism.
Known for:
- American Freedom and Catholic Power (1949)
- Communism, Democracy And Catholic Power (1951)
- Classics of Free Thought (1977)
- An outline of the British labor movement (1923)
- Irish and catholic power (1953)







