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Phineas Quimby
1802 – 1866Clockmaker turned mental healer whose notebooks seeded the entire New Thought movement.
United States·New Thought · Philosophy
Warren Felt Evans
1817 – 1889Swedenborgian minister who wrote the first systematic books of mental-cure philosophy.
United States·New Thought · Philosophy
Frederick Douglass
1818 – 1895His Narrative was abolition's most powerful weapon.
United States·Literature · Philosophy
William James
1842 – 1910Founded American psychology and, with Peirce, pragmatism; studied New Thought as 'mind-cure'.
United States·Philosophy · Psychology
John Dewey
1859 – 1952Pragmatist whose learning-by-doing reshaped schools on every continent.
United States·Philosophy · Education
W. E. B. Du Bois
1868 – 1963The Souls of Black Folk and the concept of double consciousness.
United States·Philosophy · History · Literature
Ernest Holmes
1887 – 1960Founded Religious Science and wrote The Science of Mind, its systematic textbook.
United States·New Thought · Philosophy