“Faith did not require less exercise than any other living thing, and…” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“Faith did not require less exercise than any other living thing, and was not all the better for a shaking up now and then.”

Suggesting that healthy faith can survive and benefit from intellectual examination · Religious reflections quoted in the memoir

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

About Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

29 August 1809–7 October 1894

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., born 29 August 1809 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and dead 7 October 1894 in Boston, was one of the most recognizably versatile figures in nineteenth-century American culture: physician, medical reformer, anatomist, professor, poet, novelist, essayist, conversational satirist, and public…

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