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Phineas Quimby
1802 – 1866Clockmaker turned mental healer whose notebooks seeded the entire New Thought movement.
Warren Felt Evans
1817 – 1889Swedenborgian minister who wrote the first systematic books of mental-cure philosophy.
Frederick Douglass
1818 – 1895His Narrative was abolition's most powerful weapon.
William James
1842 – 1910Founded American psychology and, with Peirce, pragmatism; studied New Thought as 'mind-cure'.
John Dewey
1859 – 1952Pragmatist whose learning-by-doing reshaped schools on every continent.
W. E. B. Du Bois
1868 – 1963The Souls of Black Folk and the concept of double consciousness.
Ernest Holmes
1887 – 1960Founded Religious Science and wrote The Science of Mind, its systematic textbook.
John Rawls
1921 – 2002A Theory of Justice: fairness derived from behind the veil of ignorance.
Martin Luther King Jr.
1929 – 1968Letter from Birmingham Jail and a movement that rewrote American law.
Martha Nussbaum
b. 1947Capabilities approach to justice, and a defence of emotion in public reason.
David Frawley
b. 1950Vedic scholar whose texts linked Ayurveda, yoga and jyotish for Western students.