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Samuel McChord Crothers

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Portrait of Samuel McChord Crothers.

Samuel McChord Crothers (June 7, 1857–November 1927) was an American Unitarian minister.

Quotes

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The Gentle Reader (1903)

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  • To keep shooting at a folly after it is dead is unsportsmanlike.
    • p. 272
  • We sometimes speak of stubborn facts. Nonsense! A fact is a mere babe when compared with a stubborn theory.
    • p. 277
  • There is no absurdity in its mental processes; all that is concealed in its assumptions.
    • p. 279; Regarding the thought process of quixotic societies,

On the Evening of the New Day (The Atlantic Monthly January 1919)

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  • Creative spirits always anticipate the course of events. They do not wait for the dawn of a new era. They resolutely begin the new era at the moment when they see that the old era is ended. The darkness gathers, but it is a time, not for vain repining over that which has passed away, but for eager planning for that which must take its place. There is a quick transfer of interests to new problems which relate themselves to the new period.
  • History is an endless maze of unrelated happenings, until we divide it up into brief portions in which we discern a certain unity of purpose.
  • In the meantime, the real America had awakened, but in its own way. It had awakened, not as a neurasthenic awakes to a vague and benumbing sense of helplessness in the presence of disaster, but as a strong man awakes to the magnitude of his necessary work.
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