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Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.

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Theodore Parker
Age: 49 †
Born: 1810
Born: August 24
Died: 1860
Died: May 10
Theologian
Lexington
Massachusetts
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Science
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Loveliness
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