Henry Brooks Adams

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    She atoned for want of devotion to God, by devotion to man. She had a woman’s natural tendency towards asceticism, self-extinction, self-abnegation.
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    In truth, the laboratory is the forecourt of the temple of philosophy, and whoso has not offered sacrifices and undergone purification there has little chance of admission into the sanctuary.
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    ... The festival-colored brightness
    That is their motion ...
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations.... This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.
    —John Adams (1735–1826)