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“What is it to be rich? It is to have an assured income in excess of expenditures, and to have no occasion for anxiety for the morrow. It is to be above the necessity of living from hand to mouth. It is to be able (or to have grounds to insanely suppose one's self to be able) to live outside of God's providence.”

Book:A Letter to the Rev. Henry W. Foote, Minister of King's Chapel, in Vindication of the Poorer Class of the Boston Working-women

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A Letter to the Rev. Henry W. Foote, Minister of King's Chapel, in Vindication of the Poorer Class of the Boston Working-women

This work is a letter written to Rev. Henry W. Foote, a minister at King's Chapel in Boston. It serves as a defense for the poorer class of Boston working women, addressing their rights and living conditions. more

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William Batchelder Greene

William Batchelder Greene (April 4, 1819 - May 30, 1878) was an American social reformer and writer. His life and work spanned multiple fields, including labor reform, prison reform, anarchism, and socialism. Greene was an advocate for social justice and equality during his lifetime and had a profound impact on future generations. more

“Without doubt, matter is unlimited in extent, and, in this sense, infinite; and the forces of Nature mould it into an innumerable number of worlds. Would it be at all astonishing if, from the universal dice-box, out of an innumberable number of throws, there should be thrown out one world infinitely perfect? Nay, does not the calculus of probabilities prove to us that one such world out of an infinite number, must be produced of necessity?”

Ifs World Should Doe Matter Force Perfect Numbers Doubt Prove Universal Infinite Boxes Thrown Unlimited Probability Astonishing Dice Calculus Mould Forces Of Nature

Author:William Batchelder Greene

“For man, the death of the body is inevitable, and is determined by time and circumstance; but, with proper precaution, the death of the soul may be totally avoided.”

Men May Soul Body Circumstances Determined Inevitable Avoided Precaution

Book:Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments

Source: Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments

“Truth was truth, whether I darkened my eyes to it or not.”

Eye

Book:Remarks on the science of history: followed by An a priori autobiography

Source: Remarks on the science of history: followed by An a priori autobiography

“If it be true that God and man are in one image or likeness (and the affirmation that they are so is not unplausible) then it is the duty of man to bring out into its full splendor that Divine Image which is latent, on one side, in the complexity of his own nature.”

Ifs Men Sides Divine Duty Being True Complexity Affirmation Splendor Latent

Book:The blazing star; with an appendix treating of the Jewish Kabbala, also a tract on the philosophy of H. Spencer, and one on New-England transcendentalism

Source: The blazing star; with an appendix treating of the Jewish Kabbala, also a tract on the philosophy of H. Spencer, and one on New-England transcendentalism

“Faith is from within; it is the outbreaking of human spontaneity; it is force of soul, grandeur of sentiment, magnanimity, generosity, courage. Its formulas are naturally unintelligible in their literal tenor; for, otherwise, they would represent that which is scientifically known, and would not be the mere provisional clothing of that which is not objectively given, but subjectively projected from the inmost depth of the soul.”