Benjamin Peirce (1809–1880) American mathematician
As quoted in The Early Years of the Saturday Club, 1855-1870 (1918) by Edward Waldo Emerson.
“A flight of perplexed unstable minds into the Confessional, into Spiritualism, into strange Eastern Cults.”
Portrait of an Age (1936)
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