“When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.”

— William R. Alger

Reported in Maturin Murray Ballou, Treasury of thought: Forming an encyclopedia of quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1884), p. 460.

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American clergyman and poet 1822–1905

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