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Sir John Frederick William Herschel
English astronomer

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The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.
—Sir John Frederick William Herschel, English astronomer, speech, 1860

Posted on July 14, 1998 at 6:31 AM

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