The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.
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God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
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Birth: | 11th September, 1741 |
Death: | 12th April, 1820 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Writer |
Arthur Young was born in Whitehall, London. He was an English writer on agriculture, economics, social statistics, and campaigner for the rights of agricultural workers. At the age of seventeen, he published a pamphlet On the War in North America, and in 1761 went to London and started a magazine entitled The Universal Museum, which was dropped on the advice of Samuel Johnson. He also wrote four novels, and Reflections on the Present State of Affairs at Home and Abroad in 1759. He toured the Kingdom of Ireland in 1776-77, publishing his Tour in Ireland in 1780.
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