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Every effort has been made to properly identify the authors of quotations in this book. Some identities, however, have been lost to time. If you have information to add to this index, please write to Skinner House Books, 25 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02108-2800.
A
Acton, Lord (1834-1902), English scientific historian and Catholic philosopher,
74
Adams, Abigail (1744-1818), American writer and First Lady, married to John
Adams, 22
Adams, Henry Brooks (1838-1918), American historian, critic, and author, 57
Adams, James Luther (1901-1994), Unitarian minister and theologian who helped
shape American religious ethics in the twentieth century, 31, 34, 83
Adams, Sarah Flower (1805-1848), English Unitarian who wrote lyrics to the
hymn “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” based on Genesis 28:10-22, 85
Addams, Jane (1860-1935), American social worker, reformer, and pacifist,
92
Adler, Felix (1851-1933), German-born American educator and social reformer,
13, 97
Aeschylus (524-456 BCE), Greek playwright and tragedian, 42
Agee, James (1909-1955), American novelist and poet, 34
Alberts, William E., 78
Alcott, Louisa May (1832-1888), American author of juvenile fiction and social
reformer, 29
Allport, Gordon W. (1897-1967), American psychologist, 92, 97
Amiel, Henri Frederic (1821-1881), Swiss philosopher and writer, 13, 71, 85
Anonymous, 13, 19, 20, 23, 31, 33, 36, 42, 48, 52, 53, 62, 66, 74, 83, 85,
95, 97, 102, 104
African proverb, 45, 70
American proverb, 78
Ancient Greek epigram, 15
Appalachian folk saying, 104
Chinese proverb, 14, 53, 62, 86
Danish proverb, 14
English proverb, 59
Japanese poem, 51
Javanese inscription, 16
Quaker precept, 65
Russian proverb, 103
Sioux Indian, 52
Spanish proverb, 22
Sumerian proverb, 100
Warsaw ghetto victim, 48
Anouilh, Jean (1910-1987), French playwright, 66
Anthony, Susan B. (1820-1906), Quaker, teacher, abolitionist, and early leader
in the temperance and suffragette movements, 37
Applegarth, Margaret T. (1886-1976), American Presbyterian author and lecturer,
53
Arendt, Hannah (1906-1975), German-born American philosopher and political
theorist, 51
Argow, Waldemar (1891-1961), American author and poet who served Baptist churches
before becoming a Unitarian minister in 1941, 78
Aristotle (384-322 BCE), Greek writer, philosopher, and scientist, 57, 77
Asoka (reigned 273-232 BCE), 3rd emperor of the Maurya dynasty, considered
to be ancient India’s greatest ruler, 67
Auden, W. H. (1907-1973), English-born American poet, 34
Augustine, St. (354-430 CE), Christian philosopher and theologian, 42
Aurelius, Marcus (121-180 CE), peace-loving Roman emperor and philosopher,
54
B
Babcock, Maltbie D. (1858-1901), American Presbyterian minister, 23, 73, 95
Bacon, Sir Francis (1561-1626), English philosopher, political leader, and
author, 37, 49
Baldwin, James (1924-1987), American author whose books portrayed black life
in America, 37, 54
Balfour, Charles, 74
Barrett, Rona (1936- ), American syndicated columnist and television journalist,
29
Barrymore, Ethel (1879-1959), American actress, sports enthusiast, and musician,
23
Barth, Karl (1886-1968), Swiss Protestant theologian, 78, 101
Baudelaire, Charles-Pierre (1821-1867), French author, translator, and poet
who was a precursor of the symbolists, 70
Baughan, Raymond (1912-1993), Unitarian Universalist minister and author,
49
Beard, Charles A. (1874-1948), American historian and political scientist,
62
Beck, Lewis White (1913- ), American philosopher, 84
Becker, May Lemberton (1873-1958), American magazine editor and children’s
author, 20
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827), German musician and composer, 86
Behrendt, Timothy Hume, 36, 74
Bejar, Hada, 40
Benet, Stephen Vincent (1898-1943), American poet and fiction writer, 37,
104
Bessman and Swazey, 97
Beston, Henry (1888-1968), American author of nature books, 72
Bevel, James (1936- ), American Baptist preacher and co-founder of the Student
Nonviolent Coodinating Committee, 13
Beybee, Henry G., Jr, 34
Bible
Old Testament
Amos, 54
Ecclesiastes, 58, 102
Exodus, 72, 98
Isaiah, 103
Proverbs, 28, 46, 60, 68, 76, 89, 93
Psalms, 35, 44, 94
Song of Solomon, 69
Zechariah, 36New Testament
Acts, 31
I Corinthians, 21, 41, 43, 67
II Corinthians, 35, 43, 75
Ephesians, 45
James, 16, 70
John, 99
I John, 16, 46, 68
Luke, 41, 80
Matthew, 56, 76
I Peter, 41
Romans, 68, 90
II Timothy, 69
Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus, 50
Binyon, Lawrence (1869-1943), English poet and art critic, 50
Blackman, H. J., 37
Blake, William (1757-1827), English poet, engraver, and painter, 86
Book of Runes, The, 20th-century interpretation (published 1983) by Ralph
H. Blum of an ancient Viking divination system, 70
Booth, John N., 98
Brightman, E. S. (1884-1953), American philosopher, 13
Brooks, Phillip (1835-1893), American Episcopal minister, 53
Brown, J. Baldwin (1820-1884), English Congregationalist preacher, 23, 104
Brown, Olympia (1835-1926), American Universalist minister and suffragette,
first woman ordained by the Universalists in 1863, 57
Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682), English author known for his writings about
religion, morality, science, and human error, 95
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861), English poet, 72, 95
Browning, Robert (1812-1889), English poet, 13
Brubaker, Cyril E., 86
Buber, Martin (1878-1965), Jewish theologian and philosopher, 20, 42, 79
Buck, Pearl S. (1892-1973), American writer and Nobel prize winner for literature
(1938), 67
Burke, Edmund (1729-1797), British political theorist and philosophical writer,
13
Burroughs, John (1837-1921), American naturalist and essayist, 62
Busch, Wilhelm (1832-1908), German cartoonist and writer, 73
Bush, Vannevar (1890-1970), American electrical engineer and inventor, 27
Butler, Samuel (1835-1902), English novelist and essayist, 27
Buxton, Charles (1823-1871), English politician, 45
C
Caldwell, Taylor (1900-1985), English-born American novelist, 31
Call, Lon Ray (1894-1985), minister-at-large for the American Unitarian Association
(1941-1951), 79
Camara, Dom Helder (1909- ), Brazilian Roman Catholic theologian and prelate,
54, 62
Campbell, Sara Moores (1943- ), Unitarian Universalist minister and author,
25
Camus, Albert (1913-1960), French novelist, essayist, and playwright, 21,
30, 40, 96, 98, 102
Carlisle, Thomas (1795-1881), British historian and social critic of early
Victorian England, 62
Carnes, Paul (1921-1979), 3rd president of the Unitarian Universalist Association
(1977-1979), 49, 70
Carpenter, J. Henry, 83
Carrier, Gaston M. (1920- ), Unitarian Universalist minister, 43
Cary, (Arthur) Joyce (1888-1957), English novelist, 36
Cary, Alice (1820-1871), American poet and co-founder of Sorosis, a women’s
literary group, 62
Cary, Phoebe (1824-1871), American poet and co-founder of Sorosis, a women’s
literary group, 67
Castillo, Michel Del (1933- ), French novelist, 45
Cather, Willa (1873-1947), American author of mid-western prairie life, 67
Cato, Marcus Porcius (234-149 BCE), Roman soldier, politician, orator, and
author, 14
Catt, Carrie Chapman (1859-1947), American reformer and founder of the League
of Women Voters, 93
Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616), Spanish author, 40
Chalekian, Jeanne Arnold, 98
Channing, William Ellery (1780-1842), Congregationalist clergy who defined
Unitarian faith in his 1819 sermon, “Unitarian Christianity,”
14, 26, 31, 38, 49, 55, 58, 83
Chartier, Emile-Auguste (1868-1951), French philosopher and essayist who wrote
under the pen name of Alain, 53
Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame, (1897- ), wife of Chinese general and politician
who struggled to establish the Chinese Republic, 27
Churchill, Sir Winston (1874-1965), English politician and author, 26
Churchill, Winston (1871-1947), American author of historical and political
novels, 40
Clarke, James Freeman (1810-1888), American theologian, Unitarian pastor,
and founder of the United Church of the Disciples in Boston (1841), 14, 63
Cloud of Unknowing, the, 96
Coate, Lowell H., Quaker humanist, 75
Cohen, Morris Raphael (1880-1947), American philosopher and teacher, 30
Coit, Stanton (1857-1944), American Ethical Culture activist and founder of
the first settlement house, 79
Conant, James Bryant (1893-1978), American chemist, president of Harvard (1933-1953),
and US ambassador to West Germany (1955-1957), 30
Confucius (551-479 BCE), Chinese teacher and philosopher, 14, 105
Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933), 30th president of the United States (1925-1929),
26
Coolidge, Susannah, 25
Cousins, Norman (1912-1990), American writer and editor, 63, 102
Cowan, Roger (1929- ), Unitarian Universalist minister, 58
Cox, Harvey (1929- ), American theology professor, 79
Cross Street Chapel, Manchester, England (founded 1662), site of the first
Wayside Pulpit in England, established December 26, 1920 by the Reverend H.
Harrold Johnson, 105
Crothers, Samuel McChord (1857-1927), Unitarian minister and American essayist,
79, 86
cummings, e. e. (1894-1962), American poet, 93
Curie, Marie (1867-1934), Polish-born French physicist, 63
D
Daly, Mary, (1928- ), American feminist, theological writer, and philosopher,
105
Darrow, Clarence (1857-1938), American labor and criminal lawyer, 98
Dávid, Francis (1510-1579), Hungarian minister and court preacher to
King John Sigismund of Transylvania, established Unitarianism in Transylvania
in 1568, 31
Davies, A. Powell (1902-1957), Unitarian minister who spoke openly for civil
rights and against McCarthyism, 30, 43, 98
Davies, William Henry (1871-1940), Welsh poet, 96
Dawson, Marshall, 31
Debs, Eugene V. (1855-1926), American union organizer, 55
Deng Ming Dao, Chinese Taoist scholar and author, 105
Desmahis, 55
Dewar, Thomas, 58
Dewey, John (1859-1952), American educator, 58
Dhammapada, anthology of 423 Buddhist verses, 45
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886), American poet, 95, 96, 98
Diderot, Denis (1713-1784), French philosopher, playwright, and novelist,
33
Didion, Joan (1934- ), American writer of contemporary social tensions, 86
Dillard, Annie (1945- ), American writer and Pulitzer Prize winner for nonfiction
(1975), 72
Dimnet, Ernest (1866-1954), French cleric, 14
Disraeli, Benjamin (1804-1881), English politician, novelist, and prime minister,
105
Dix, Dorothea (1802-1887), American reformer, 15
Djumblatt, Kemal, Lebanese revolutionary leader, 55
Dom, Jesse Roy, 46
Dos Passos, John (1896-1970), American novelist, 33
Douglass, Frederick (ca. 1817-1895), African-American abolitionist, 15
Drake, Durant (1878-1933), American philosopher, 43
Du Bois, W. E. B. (1868-1963), African-American scholar and creator of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1909), 75
Durant, Will (1861-1947), American industrialist who founded General Motors
(1908), 93, 96, 102
E
Earhart, Amelia (1897-1937), American aviator and first woman to fly cross
the Atlantic Ocean, 30, 105
Eckhart, Meister (ca. 1260-1327), German Dominican theologian, preacher, and
founder of the school of German mysticism, 23, 43, 70, 86
Edman, Erwin (1896-1954), American philosopher, 67
Ehrmann, Max (1872-1945), American poet and playwright, 98
Einstein, Albert (1879-1955), German-born American physicist, pacifist, and
humanitarian, 58, 84, 101
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1890-1969), 34th president of the US (1953-1961), 15,
75, 103
Eliot, Frederick May (1889-1958), president of the American Unitarian Association
(1937-1958), 38
Ellis, Havelock (1859-1939), English physician and writer, 47, 63
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882), American writer, poet, and ordained Unitarian
minister, 15, 20, 21, 23, 26, 27, 30, 35, 41, 43, 58, 83, 84, 87, 98
Epictetus (ca. 50-135 CE), Greek philosopher, 63
Erasmus, Desiderius (1466-1536), Dutch scholar and leader of the humanist
movement, 105
Erikson, Erik H. (1902-1994), German-born American psycholanalyst and educator,
47
Euripides (480-406 BCE), Greek playwright, 38, 44
Eusebius (ca. 264-340 CE), theologian and scholar, probably born in Palestine,
75
F
Fahs, Sophia Lyon (1876-1978), Unitarian religious educator ordained in 1959,
25
Fenelon, François de (1651-1715), French prelate, theologian, and preacher,
99
Fenn, William Wallace, 79
Ferm, Deane William, 77
Fermi, Laura (1907-1977), Italian-born American scientist of atomic energy,
101
Finney, Charles G. (1792-1875), American Presbyterian minister, theologian,
and educator, 79
Fleck, G. Peter (1909-1995), international banker and venture capitalist who
became a Unitarian Universalist minister at age 75, 99
Foerster, L. Annie (1935- ), Unitarian Universalist minister, 47
Fosdick, Harry Emerson (1878-1969), American Protestant preacher and pacifist,
87
Fosdick, Raymond (1883-1972), American lawyer and politician, 93
Francis, St. of Assisi (1182-1226), Italian mystic who founded the religious
order of the Franciscans, 15, 36
Frankel, Charles (1917-1979), American educator and author, 87
Frankfurter, Felix (1882-1965), Austrian-born liberal associate justice of
the US Supreme Court, 38
Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790), Quaker and leader of the American Revolution,
15, 105
Frost, Robert (1874-1963), American traditionalist poet, 21, 95
Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850), American feminist, cultural critic, and transcendentalist,
31, 59, 72, 87, 99
G
Gabrielle, Josephine, 26
Gallaudet, Herbert D. (1876-1944), American cleric, 44
Galsworthy, John (1867-1933), English novelist and playwright, 59
Gandhi, Mohandas K. (1869-1948), Indian nationalist and spiritual leader,
45, 53, 63, 79, 93
Gay, Peter (1923- ), German-born American historian, 93
Ghose, Sri Chinmoy, 88
Gibran, Kahlil (1883-1931), Lebanese writer and artist, 47, 63, 67, 74
Gide, André (1869-1951), French author, 55
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832), German poet, dramatist, novelist,
and scientist, 59, 63
Goldner, Bernard (1919- ), American business industrialist, 96
Gomillion, Charles G., retired professor of sociology, 46
Goodenough, Erwin R. (1893-1965), American religion professor, 77
Goudge, Elizabeth, 63
Gould, Cynthia J., 49
Grayson, David (1870-1946), American journalist and writer, 19
Greeley, Dana McLean (1908-1986), president of the American Unitarian Association
(1958-1961) and first president of the Unitarian Universalist Association
(1961-1969), 55
Grenfell, Sir Wilfred Thomason (1865-1940), English physician and missionary,
64
Gunther, John (1901-1970), American author and journalist, 59
H
Half, Robert (1918- ), American entrepreneur, 15
Hallman, Laurel (1943- ), Unitarian Universalist minister, 80
Hammarskjöld, Dag (1905-1961), Swedish diplomat and secretary general
of the United Nations (1953-1961), 15, 75, 88
Han Suyin (1917- ), Chinese-born British novelist, 99
Hayward, John F. (1916-1983), English art historian, 36
Hazlitt, William (1778-1830), English literalist, social critic, and part-time
painter, 53
Head, Geoffrey, 35
Heat-Moon, William Least (1939- ), American writer and traveler of the American
mid-west, 103
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770-1831), German philosopher and educator,
38
Heinemann, Frederick H., 49
Helverson, Ralph (1912- ), retired Unitarian Universalist minister, 19
Heraclitus (active ca. 500 BCE), Greek philosopher, 23
Herbert, George (1593-1633), English metaphysical poet and Anglican priest,
70
Heschel, Abraham (1907-1972), Polish-born American educator and author, 16,
38, 64
Hocking, Brian, 53
Hocking, William E. (1873-1966), American philosopher, 16, 88
Hodgson, Ralph (1871-1962), English poet, 27
Holbach, Paul Henri Dietrich d’ (1723-1789), German-born French man
of leisure, 26
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894), American physician and author, 27
Holmes, Robert Henry (1915-1997), Unitarian Universalist minister, 41, 70
Hoyle, Sir Fred (1915- ), English astronomer and mathematician, 32
Hu Shih (1891-1962), Chinese philosopher, 84
Hubbard, Elbert (1856-1915), American writer and organizer of a craft colony
to produce furniture and other household items, 55
Hughes, E. H., 67
I
Ikin, A. Graham, 68
Illich, Ivan (1926- ), Austrian theologian, educator, and social critic, 38
Ingalls, John (1833-1900), US senator, 72
Ingersoll, Robert Green (1833-1899), American lawyer and champion of free
thought, 26, 59
Isocrates (436-338 BCE), Greek orator, 23, 28, 93
J
Jackson, Jesse (1941- ), African American civil rights leader and preacher,
74
Jaeger’s Facts, 16
James, William (1842-1910), American philosopher and psychologist, 64
Jauves, Jean, 59
Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826), American philosopher, political leader, author
of the Declaration of Independence, and 3rd president of the US (1801-1809),
44, 77, 80
Jiminez, Juan Ramon (1881-1958), Spanish symbolist poet, 88
Jinnah, Mohammad Ali (1876-1948), political leader and first governor general
of Pakistan (1947-1948), 75
Johnson, H. Harrold, English Unitarian minister and creator of the first Wayside
Pulpit in England, December 26, 1920, 8
Johnston, J. Donald, 33, 71
Jones, Mary Harris “Mother” (1830-1930), Irish immigrant who devoted
her life to improving conditions for the working class, 18
Jones, Rufus M. (1863-1948), American Quaker philosopher, historian, and social
reformer, 80
Jones, Sir William (1746-1794), English jurist and Asian scholar, 16
Joplin, Janis (1943-1970), American rock singer, 88
Joseph, Morris, 64
Joubert, Joseph (1754-1824), French writer and moralist, 16, 25
Joyce, James Avery (1882-1941), Irish novelist, 99
Jung, Carl (1875-1961), Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist, 16, 21, 33, 99
K
Kaiser, Henry J. (1882-1967), American industrialist and creator of the largest
private health plan in 1942, 17
Kaufmann, Robert F. (1921- ), Unitarian Universalist minister, 103
Kellaway, Richard A. (1934- ), Unitarian Universalist minister, 88
Keller, Helen (1880-1962), American lecturer and author born blind and deaf,
campaigned for improvements in the education and life of the handicapped,
71, 88, 96
Kempis, Thomas a (ca. 1380-1471), Roman Catholic monk and spiritual writer,
68, 75
Kennan, George F. (1904- ), American Foreign Service officer and diplomat,
32
Kierkegaard, Soren (1813-1855), Swedish philosopher and religious thinker,
17, 47
Killam, William B., 44
King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968), African-American Baptist minister, civil
rights leader, and Nobel peace prize winner (1964), 41, 51, 55, 56, 68, 76,
103, 106
Koran, the, sacred text of Islam, 59
L
La Rochefoucauld, François (1613-1680), French writer, 36
LaMance, Thomas, 64
Lao Tzu (6th century BCE), Chinese philosopher reputed to be the author of
the Tao-te Ching, 76, 89
Larson, Philip M., Jr. (1929-1996), Unitarian Universalist minister, 17, 21,
106
Leaming, Marjorie Newlin (1915- ), Unitarian Universalist minister, 44
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716), German philosopher and mathematician,
56
Lewis, C. S. (1898-1963), Anglican British novelist and essayist, 20
Lillie, Beatrice (1894-1989), Canadian comic actress, 28
Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865), 13th US president (1861-1865), 32, 38, 49, 56,
76, 96
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow (1906- ), American author and aviator, 21, 52
Lindeman, Eduard (1885-1953), American Danish philosopher and educator, 17
Lippman, Walter (1889-1974), American author and independent thinker, 51
Locke, John (1632-1704), English philosopher and political theorist, 17
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882), American poet, 41
Luther, Martin (1483-1546), German reformer and preacher, 89
Lynch, William, 49
M
McGlashan, Alan, 103
Madison, Orin E., 17
Maggio, Rosalie, American writer and editor of quotation collections and grammar
reference texts, 11
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1911- ), Indian guru, missionary of traditional Indian
thought, and founder of the Transcendental Meditation Movement, 107
Malraux, Andre (1901-1976), French writer, existentialist, and politician,
33
Marshall, Peter (1902-1949), Scottish-born American Presbyterian minister,
17
Martin, Everett Dean (1880-1941), Unitarian minister and liberal educator,
60
Martineau, Harriet (1802-1876), English abolitionist and writer of positivistic
philosophy, 80
Masaryk, Tomas Garrigue (1850-1937), Czech philosopher and first president
of Czechoslovakia (1918-1935), 80
Masefield, John (1878-1967), English journalist, poet, and novelist, 47
Mead, Margaret (1901-1978), American anthropologist, 60, 80
Mead, Sidney E. (1904- ), American historian and educator, 44
Menander (342-291 BCE), Athenian comic playwright, 64
Mendelsohn, Jack (1918- ), Unitarian Universalist minister and author, 89
Meserve, Harry (1741-1815), Universalist preacher, called the founder of the
Universalist Church in America, 33, 47
Meyer, Agnes E. (1887-1970), American author, 17
Miller, Samuel H. (1769-1850), Presbyterian minister, educator, and founder
of Princeton Theological Seminary, 30
Montagu, Ashley (1905- ), London-born American anthropologist, 32, 51
Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592), French essayist educated in humanist teachings
and the classics, 18, 20, 64
Montessori, Marie (1870-1952), Italian educator, physician, and creator of
the Montessori method of teaching, 25
Moody, Dwight L. (1837-1899), American evangelist of 19th-century Protestant
revivalism, 23
Moore, George (1873-1958), English philosopher, 44
Moore, Marianne (1887-1972), American moralist poet and educator, 103
More, Hannah (1745-1833), English playwright and religious writer, 60
Morley, Christopher (1890-1957), American novelist and essayist, 60
Morray, Joseph R., 39
Mother Jones, see Jones, Mary Harris “Mother”
Mother Teresa, see Teresa, Mother
Murray, Gilbert (1866-1957), Australian classic scholar and writer, 25, 64
Murray, John (1741-1815), English-born American theologian who preached universal
salvation and is considered to be the “Father of American Universalism”,
80
N
Nardi, David, 64
Neruda, Pablo (1904-1973), Chilean poet, diplomat, and Nobel prize winner
for literature (1971), 68
Nevelson, Louise (1900-1988), American abstract sculptor, 39
Newhall, Nancy (1908-1974), American writer and photographer, 65
Newman, Cardinal John Henry (1801-1890), English theologian and Catholic priest,
21
Nichols, Bill, 99
Niebuhr, Reinhold (1892-1971), American theologian, 81
Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1900), German philosopher, 28, 71, 101
Nizer, Louis (1902- ), American lawyer, 81, 99
Nolde, Emil (1867-1956), German expressionist painter of still lifes, landscapes,
and religious subjects, 65
Norman, Charles, 24
O
Osler, Sir William (1849-1919), Canadian physician, humanitarian, and agnostic,
51
P
Paine, Thomas (1737-1809), English-born journalist and American Revolutionist,
28, 81
Paquet, Alfons (1881-1944), German dramatist, 83
Park, Charles, 81
Parker, Theodore (1810-1860), Unitarian minister and educator credited with
directing Unitarian thinking toward liberalism, 41, 44
Pasternak, Boris (1890-1960), Russian poet, novelist, philosopher, and Nobel
prize winner for literature (1958), 65
Paul VI, Pope (1897-1978), Roman Catholic Pope who oversaw great change in
the Catholic Church and traveled widely to promote Christianity and world
peace, 56
Paulson, J. Sid, 89
Pease, Cy N., 20
Peckham, Morse (1914- ), American professor of English literature, 89
Peirce, Charles Sanders (1839-1914), American philosopher, 28
Penn, William (1644-1718), Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania, 18, 54, 81
Perkins, Palfrey (1883-1976), American Unitarian minister, 35
Philips, Roy D. (1941- ), American Unitarian Universalist minister, 89
Pierce, Ulysses G. B. (1865-1943), American Unitarian Universalist minister,
81
Plato (428-347 BCE), Greek philosopher and founder of the school of philosophy
known as the Academy, 74
Plutarch (ca. 46-120 CE), Greek biographer, historian, and moralist philosopher,
60, 77
Pomeroy, Vivian T. (1883-1961), English-born Congregational minister and writer,
22
Price, Leontyne (1927- ), African American soprano singer, 32
Proust, Marcel (1871-1922), French novelist, 89
Putnam, Peter, 101
Q
Quesnel, Pasquier (1634-1719), French theologian and director of the Paris
Oratory, 54
R
Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli (1888-1975), Indian philosopher and political leader,
60, 68
Ramananda, 52
Rand, Ayn (1905-1982), Russian-born American writer and philosopher, 90
Rapid Service 66, 24
Ratter, Magnus, 81
Raymo, Chet, American professor of physics and Boston Globe columnist, 60
Raymond, Rossiter W., 51
Redfield, William, 106
Reed, Robert, 28
Reese, Curtis W. (1887-1961), American Baptist minister who became Unitarian
in 1913, 94
Renault, Mary (1905-1983), English-born South African writer, 46
Richmond, Ralph, 97
Riesman, David (1909- ), American writer and social critic, 97
Rig Veda (translated “Veda of Hymns”), part of four ancient Hindu
scriptures known as the Vedas, 47
Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926), German poet, 72
Robertson, F. W. (1816-1853), Anglican clergy, 36
Roden, Max, 24
Roethke, Theodore (1908-1963), American poet and teacher, 47
Rogers, Will (1879-1935), American humorist and vaudevillian, 50
Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962), wife of 32nd US president, philantropist,
author, and diplomat, 90
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1882-1945), 32nd US president (1933-1945), 34, 56,
90
Rose, W. W., 39
Rose, William Wallace, 85
Rosen, Robert, 106
Ross, Floyd, 65
Royce, Josiah (1855-1916), American philosopher, 90
Royce, Sir Henry (1863-1933), English engineer and co-founder of Rolls-Royce
(1906), 27
Rudolph, Frederick, 33
Ruskin, John (1819-1900), English critic and social theorist, 65
Russell, Bertrand (1872-1970), British mathematician, philosopher, and social
reformer, 28, 60
Russell, Rollo, 76
S
Sagan, Carl (1934-1996), American astronomer, 48
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine-Marie-Roger de (1900-1944), French novelist,
essayist, and commercial pilot, 69
Sand, George (1804-1876), French novelist, 100
Sandburg, Carl (1878-1967), American poet, journalist, and singer, 25
Santayana, George (1863-1952), Spanish and American philosopher, 30, 37, 61
Sarton, May (1912- ), Belgian-born American poet and writer, 24
Sartre, Jean-Paul (1905-1980), French philosopher, writer, and Existentialist,
22
Satchidananda, Swami (1914- ), Indian-born yoga master and spiritual leader,
76
Satyananda, Swami, German former journalist and disciple of Guru Oshu, 52,
84
Saunderson, Henry Hallam (1871-1957), American Unitarian minister who introduced
the Wayside Community Pulpit to North America, 7, 8, 10, 24, 94, 106
Savage, Minot (1841-1918), American Congregationalist minister who became
Unitarian in 1872, 90
Schiller, Heinrich, 46
Schnabaker, Ann Ruth, 48
Scholefield, Harry B. (1914- ), Unitarian Universalist minister, 48, 104
Schramm, Catharine, 90
Schulman, J. Frank (1927- ), Unitarian Universalist minister, 24, 35, 45,
100
Schwartz, Maurice (1890-1960), Russian-born American actor and founder of
the Yiddish Art Theater in New York, 76
Schweitzer, Albert (1875-1965), Alsatian-German religious philosopher, musicologist,
medical missionary to Africa, and Nobel peace prize winner (1952), 35, 48,
50, 56, 61, 82, 84, 100
Scott, Harold, 39
Seamands, David A., 45
Seattle, Chief (1788-1866), Suquamish chief who converted to Christianity
and advocated friendship and open trade with white people, 52
Seaver, Richard, 90
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616), English playwright, poet, and actor, 34,
42, 69
Sharp, Waitstill (1902-1983), Unitarian minister who helped Czech refugees
escape from Nazi-held Prague, 39
Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950), Irish playwright and critic, 22, 57
Shawcross, Sir Hartley (1902- ), English jurist who was the chief prosecuter
at the Nuremberg trials, 61
Shideler, Mary McDermott (1917- ), American mythopoeic and religion scholar,
52
Short, H. L., 18
Shute, Nevil (1899-1960), English novelist, 48
Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586), English poet, courtier, diplomat, and soldier,
24
Silberman, Charles E. (1925- ), American sociologist and author, 94, 101
Simpson, George (1902-1984), American paleontologist, 35
Sinnott, Edmund W. (1888-1968), American botanist and educator, 91
Sittler, Joseph (1904-1987), American theologian, educator, and author, 57
Skinner, Clarence R. (1881-1949), Universalist theologian and minister, founder
of the Community Church in Boston (1920), and dean of Crane Theological School
at Tufts College (1933-1945), 82
Sloan, Hugh W. (1941- ), American treasurer for Richard Nixon’s re-election
campaign, 106
Smith, Elizabeth Oakes (1806-1893), American author, lecturer, and reformer,
35
Smith, Homer V., 91
Smith, Lillian (1897-1966), American Southern writer and critic of racism,
34
Smudski, J. Robert, 101
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander I. (1918- ), Soviet novelist imprisoned for criticizing
Stalin, 91, 100
Sophocles (496-406 BCE), Greek playwright and poet who wrote of humanism,
42, 106
Soter, Rabbi, 91
Spencer, Anna Garlin (1851-1931), American Unitarian transcendentalist and
reformer, 107
Sperry, Willard L. (1882-1954), American Protestant cleric and theologian,
82
Spinoza, Baruch (1632-1677), Dutch philosopher and theorist in the rationalist
tradition, 94
Stark, Freya (1893-1993), French-born English writer who was a nurse during
World War I, 82
Stassinopoulos, Arianna (1950- ), Greek author, 39
Steckle, L. C., 18
Stein, Robert, 18
Stein, Shifra, American author, journalist, and facilitator of journaling
workshops, 69
Stephens, James (1882-1950), Irish novelist and poet, 27
Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955), American poet, 29
Stevenson, Adlai E. (1900-1965), American politician, diplomat, and US representative
to the United Nations (1961-1965), 18, 29, 48, 61, 78
Stoddard, George, 50
Sullivan, W. L., 39
Swetchine, Anne, 37, 42
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745), Anglo-Irish poet, political writer, and cleric,
65
T
Tagore, Rabindranath (1861-1941), Indian Bengali poet, philosopher, founder
of Visva-Bharati University (1901), and Nobel prize winner for literature
(1913), 26, 91, 94, 100
Talmud, Abaye, 61
Taylor, John A. (1753-1824), American politician, political theorist, and
critic of Hamiltonian Federalist policies, 107
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre (1881-1955), French paleontologist and philosopher
who helped discover Peking Man (1929), 19
Temple, William (1881-1944), Ecumenical minister and Archbishop of Cantebury,
82, 85
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892), English poet who became England’s
poet laureate (1850), 22, 34
Terence (ca. 195-159 BCE), Roman comic dramatist, 57
Teresa, Mother (1910-1997), Roman Catholic nun and missionary, 18
Thomas, Lewis (1913-1993), American physician, author, and educator, 50
Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862), American author and transcendentalist, 19,
29, 39, 65, 66, 73, 91
Thurber, James (1894-1961), American writer and artist, 71, 102
Thurman, Howard (1900-1981), African American theologian and religious leader,
24, 35, 71
Tillich, Paul (1886-1965), German-American Protestant theologian and philosopher,
42, 82
Toller, Ernst (1893-1939), German playwright and expressionist, 92
Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910), Russian novelist and moral philosopher, 25, 69
Tournier, Paul (1898-1986), Swiss physician and writer, 82, 92
Toynbee, Arnold J. (1889-1972), English historian and philosopher, 61, 66,
107
Turner, J. E., 40
Tutu, Desmond (1931- ), Anglican archbishop and anti-apartheid leader in South
Africa, 40
Twain, Mark (1835-1910), American novelist, 22
U
Unamuno y Jugo, Miguel de (1864-1936), Spanish philosopher, writer, and early
exponent of Existentialism, 22
Ustinov, Peter (1921- ), British actor and playwright, 29, 37
V
Van Buren, Abigail (1918- ), American advice columnist, 19
van Dyke, Henry (1852-1933), American Presbyterian minister and US Minister
to the Netherlands and Luxembourg (1913-1916), 82
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890), Dutch painter, 66
van Loon, Hendrik Willem (1882-1944), Dutch-born American historian, 54
Voltaire (1694-1778), French poet, dramatist, and philosopher, 57, 92
Vonnegut, Kurt (1922- ), American author, 83
W
Waldo, Octavia, 66
Walker, Alice (1944- ), African American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner
(1983), 84
Wanamaker, John (1838-1922), American Presbyterian merchant and founder of
the Bethany Sunday School, 107
Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915), African American educator and founder of
the Tuskegee Institute (1881), 46
Washington, George (1732-1799), 1st President of the US (1789-1796), 40, 77
Waterman, Nixon (1859-1944), American poet, 66
Watson, William (1715-1787), English scientist and apothocary, 46
Webb, Meredith, former Wayside Pulpit editor, 10
Weil, Simone (1909-1943), French thinker, political activist, and religious
mystic, 71
Weiss, Paul (1898-1989), American developmental biologist born in Vienna,
94
Wharton, Edith (1861-1937), American author and socialite, 19
Wharton, John F. (1894-1977), American lawyer and contributor to American
theatre, 29
White, William Allen (1868-1944), American educator and author, 97
Whitehead, Alfred North (1861-1947), English-born American mathematician and
philosopher, 19, 32, 78, 100
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892), American poet, 57, 73
Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892), American poet, abolitionist, and Quaker,
92
Wieman, Henry Nelson (1884-1975), American philosopher and theologian; ordained
a Presbyterian minister (1912), became Unitarian (1949), 94
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (1850-1919), American journalist and poet, 69, 92
Wilder, Thornton (1897-1975), American novelist and playwright, 102, 104
Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924), 28th President of the US (1913-1921), 77, 95
Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797), Anglo-Irish feminist and author, 84
Y
Yamaguchi, Tsutomu, 77
Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939), Irish poet and dramatist; one of the first
senators of Irish Free State (1922-1928); awarded Nobel prize for literature
(1923), 52, 61, 73
Young, Whitney Moore, Jr (1921-1971), African American civil rights leader
and social work administrator, 32
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