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Margaret Benson Biography

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Margaret Benson, born on June 16, 1865, and died on May 13, 1916, was an English author known for her portrayals of rural life and profound insights into social issues.

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Book:The Venture of Rational Faith

Source: The Venture of Rational Faith

“apparent contradiction ... is often the opportunity for new discovery in science; and it even may be said that the absence of apparent contradiction is due to our want of perception, since our knowledge of laws and causes is so small compared to their total sum.”

Want May Said Law Opportunity Causes Perception Discovery Dues Absence Contradiction New Discoveries Discovery In Science

Book:The Venture of Rational Faith

Source: The Venture of Rational Faith

“But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.”

Want Facts Middle Average Melancholy Mediocrity Relish

Book:The Venture of Rational Faih

Source: The Venture of Rational Faih

“Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.”

Reason Values Judgment Intellectual Faculty

Book:The Venture of Rational Faih

Source: The Venture of Rational Faih

“... all progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority ... without the huge body of traditional knowledge, accurate and inaccurate together, there would be nothing even to correct. Progress is not made in spite of authority, but by means of it.”

Mean Has Beens Made Body Would Be Together Progress Huge Authority Traditional Spite Accurate Corrections

Book:The Venture of Rational Faith

Source: The Venture of Rational Faith

“The spiritual is not the emotional; we may receive spiritual things emotionally, but to receive them rationally we must receive them with the mind and the will; we must act on them, we must experiment on them, we must let them permeate our consciousness.”

Mind May Spiritual Consciousness Emotional Experiments

Book:The Venture of Rational Faith

Source: The Venture of Rational Faith

“A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug.”

Stills Pieces Nice Sitting Cat Newspapers Meat Chairs Plates Persian Sticky Distasteful

Book:The soul of a cat: and other stories

Source: The soul of a cat: and other stories

“The cat is, above all things, a dramatist.”

Humanity Animal All Things Cat Funny Cat

Book:The soul of a cat: and other stories

Source: The soul of a cat: and other stories

“He lives in the halflights in secret places, free and alone, this mysterious little great being whom his mistress calls, My cat.”

Littles Secret Cat Mysterious Mistress Secret Places

Book:The soul of a cat: and other stories

Source: The soul of a cat: and other stories

“Dogs have owners, cats have staff.”

Dog Cat Owners Staff

Author:Margaret Benson

About the Author

Born: June 16, 1865
Died: May 13, 1916
Known for: Author
Quotes: 10

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