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
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