All the lessons of history in four sentences:
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.
The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.
The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Charles Austin Beard Quotes
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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| Birth: | 27th November, 1874 |
| Death: | 1st September, 1948 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Founder, Historian |
About
Charles Beard was born into a wealthy Indiana family in 1874. In his youth he experienced the rigors hard physical labor working on the family farm and attended a local Quaker school, Spiceland Academy. He was expelled from the school when he and his brother Clarence printed a pamphlet criticizing the faculty and administration of Indiana University, where Clarence was a student. Charles graduated from Knightstown High School in 1891. For the next few years the brothers managed a local newspaper. Their editorial position supported the Republican Party and favored prohibition, a cause for which Charles Beard lectured in later years.
Beard attended DePauw University where he studied history until graduating in 1898. He edited the college newspaper and belonged to the debate team. At a dance class, he met Mary Ritter, whom he married in 1900. As a historian, Mary Beard's research interests lay in feminism and the labor union movement. They collaborated on many works of history, including the popular survey, The Beards' Basic History of the United States.
Beard went to England in 1899 for graduate studies at Oxford University. He collaborated with Walter Vrooman in founding Ruskin Hall, a school meant to be accessible to the working man. In exchange for reduced tuition, students worked in the school's various businesses. Beard taught for the first time at Ruskin Hall and he lectured to workers in industrial towns to promote Ruskin Hall and to encourage enrollment in correspondence courses.
Beard had parallel careers as a historian and political scientist. He was active in the American Political Science Association and was elected its President in 1926. He was also a member of the American Historical Association and served as its president in 1933. He was best known for his studies of the Constitution, and for his creation of bureaus of municipal research and his studies of public administration in cities,
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