Noah Porter

Noah Porter, Jr. (December 14, 1811 – March 4, 1892) was an American academic, philosopher, author, lexicographer and President of Yale College (1871–1886).

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• Christianity is more than history; it is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth, or suggests a truth, or expresses a truth which man needs to assent to or to put into practice.
  • Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 133.

External links

• Civil Liberty: A Sermon, from the Antislavery Literature Project
• The Human Intellect: With an Introduction upon Psychology and the Soul via Google Books.
• Peirce, C. S. (1869), "Professor Porter's Human Intellect" (review), The Nation 8, 211-13 (March 18, 1869). Peirce Edition Project Eprint.