Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.
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Frances Wright
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About Frances Wright
Frances Wright, widely known as Fanny Wright, was a Scottish-born lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist, utopian socialist, abolitionist, social reformer, and Epicurean philosopher, who became a US citizen in 1825. The same year, she founded the Nashoba Commune in Tennessee as a utopian community to demonstrate how to prepare slaves for eventual emancipation, but the project lasted only five years.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Frances WrightIf we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down conte…
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a rea…
How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - j…
These will vary in every human being but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
If they exert it not for good, they will for evil if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a rea…
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How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - j…
Equality is the soul of liberty there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down conte…