Search results for "Society of the Friends of Truth" - New World Encyclopedia
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- | Non-profit_name = American Friends Service Committee | founded_date ... | founder = 17 members of the Religious Society of Friends ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 03:35, 24 July 2023
- The Religious Society of Friends, whose members are known as Quakers ... was founded in England in the seventeenth century as a Christian religious ...39 KB (6,129 words) - 00:04, 15 April 2023
- Satyagraha (Sanskrit, meaning "Truth-force") was a term ... Gandhi's philosophy of satyagraha also had a profound impact ...17 KB (2,735 words) - 22:38, 3 April 2020
- George Fox (July 1624 – January 13, 1691), founder of the Religious ... Fox's teachings opposed the the rationalism common in religion ...29 KB (4,689 words) - 10:15, 13 December 2023
- Catholic theologian who helped to shape the new thought of the late sixteenth ... Charron’s theories were notably well-received during the seventeenth ...13 KB (1,975 words) - 05:20, 24 November 2022
- and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism ... Godwin held the optimistic view that every individual, as a rational ...22 KB (3,378 words) - 12:12, 8 May 2023
- :This article is about the philosopher. See also Chrysippus (mythology ... Chrysippus of Soli (c. 280 B.C.E. - c. 207 B.C.E.) is considered to ...9 KB (1,399 words) - 21:54, 10 December 2023
- She became known for her portraits of celebrities of her day, and ... in her life. Her work had a major impact on the development of modern photography ...15 KB (2,391 words) - 21:09, 4 October 2022
- abolitionist, social reformer, and proponent of women's rights. She is ... Mott's Philadelphia home was a stop on the Underground Railroad ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 02:27, 5 November 2022
- , (May 3, 1899 – May 10, 1960) was a Russian novelist during the ... was brought up in Odessa where he moved with the family in 1902. He studied ...7 KB (1,003 words) - 10:31, 7 June 2023
- 7, 1709After Britain's change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian ... Johnson's hatred of slavery and the abuses of colonialism, his ...12 KB (1,867 words) - 03:01, 23 December 2022
- and insurance, whose writings influenced the philosophy and public life ... Two pamphlets which he published in 1771, Appeal to the Public on ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 01:46, 14 December 2022
- revivalist," was a major leader of the Second Great Awakening ... Finnney ignited a wave of spiritual transformation among a sector ...24 KB (3,726 words) - 19:08, 4 December 2023
- and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the radical abolitionist ... widely accepted and institutional racism and the degrading conditions of blacks ...24 KB (3,479 words) - 18:24, 17 April 2023
- Lacydes of Cyrene, Greek philosopher, became head of the Platonic ... When skepticism emerged in Plato's academy around the third to ...9 KB (1,363 words) - 04:33, 6 October 2022
- for writing a sophisticated diary describing the American Civil War and her ... As the daughter of a governor and senator from South Carolina and ...16 KB (2,536 words) - 16:00, 7 November 2022
- writer who came to be acknowledged as one of the most important spiritual ... not only among his immediate circle of friends and disciples (many ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- The First Great Awakening (often referred by historians as the Great ... a large following." Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," ...15 KB (2,094 words) - 17:24, 28 March 2024
- |motto = Veritatem Dilexi (Cherish Truth) |established = 1885 ... Township, Pennsylvania, ten miles northwest of Philadelphia. The name "Bryn ...14 KB (2,073 words) - 16:50, 22 November 2023
- , Modest Petrovič Musorgskij) (March 9, 1839 – March 16, 1881) ... Mussorgsky was born in Karevo in the province of Pskov, 400 kilometers ...18 KB (2,697 words) - 19:26, 9 November 2022
