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Minnie Louise Haskins

  • “And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year, / 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.' / And he replied, 'Go out into the darkness, and put your hand into the Hand of God. / That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way.'”

    • Minnie Louise Haskins,
    • "The Gate of the Year," The Desert ()

Minnie Louise Haskins, English academic in sociology and philosophy

(1875 - 1957)