Joel Asaph Allen (July 19, 1838 – August 29, 1921) was an American zoologist and ornithologist.
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“They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
—Bible: Hebrew Isaiah, 2:4.
The words reappear in Micah 4:3, and the reverse injunction is made in Joel 3:10 (”Beat your plowshares into swords ...”)
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—Sterling Allen Brown (b. 1901)