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Olympia Brown: The more we...

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The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

Source: Sermon, c. 13 Jan. 1895, Mukwonago, Wis. (published in Olympia Brown, An Autobiography, ed. by Gwendolen B. Willis, 1960; repr. in Annual Journal of the Universalist Historical Society, vol. 4, 1963)
-- Olympia Brown, ( 1835-1900), US suffragist, ministero; She was the first American woman to be ordained by full denominational authority of the Universalist church.


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