Quote of the day
It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.
William Robertson Smith
Born: November 8, 1846
Died: March 31, 1894 (aged 47)
Bio: William Robertson Smith was a Scottish orientalist, Old Testament scholar, professor of divinity, and minister of the Free Church of Scotland. He was an editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica and contributor to the Encyclopaedia Biblica.
Known for:
- Religion of the Semites (1889)
- Lectures on the religion of the Semites (1889)
- Kinship & marriage in early Arabia (1885)
- The Old Testament in the Jewish church (1881)
- The prophets of Israel