Henry Brewster Stanton (June 27, 1805 - January 14, 1887) was an American 19th century abolitionist and social reformer.
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“Whatever practical people may say, this world is, after all, absolutely governed by ideas, and very often by the wildest and most hypothetical ideas. It is a matter of the very greatest importance that our theories of things that seem a long way apart from our daily lives, should be as far as possible true, and as far as possible removed from error.”
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