Today’s Poem: A Noiseless Patient Spider
Jonathan Edwards, Walt Whitman, and the last days of natural philosophy
In 1723, the twenty-year-old Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) — whom we may recall chiefly as the author of the 1741 “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” the most enduringly famous sermon of the First Great Awakening in America — sent to Paul Dudley, a Massachusetts resident but also a member Royal Society …
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