Ocupation: Historian
Life: 1838 - 1875
Birthday: 1838
Death: 1875
As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity.
source: William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.186
topic: Men, Atoms, Agents, Mathematical Problems, Free Agents