Quote of the day
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Samuel Alexander
Born: January 6, 1859
Died: September 13, 1938 (aged 79)
Bio: Samuel Alexander OM, FBA was an Australian-born British philosopher. He was the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college.
Known for:
- Space, time, and deity
- Beauty and other forms of value (1933)
- Spinoza and time (1921)
- Moral Order and Progress (1889)