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The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
William Whewell
Born: May 24, 1794
Died: March 6, 1866 (aged 71)
Bio: William Whewell was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Known for:
- The philosophy of the inductive sciences (1840)
- History of the inductive sciences (1837)
- The plurality of worlds .. (1853)
- The elements of morality: including polity (1845)
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