William R. Alger Quote

When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.


Reported in Maturin Murray Ballou, Treasury of thought: Forming an encyclopedia of quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1884), p. 460.


When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.

When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.

When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.

When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.