George MacDonald

Person · Open Library

Born

1925

Died

2008

Works

40

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

GB

Active from

1987-08-25

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

275

Total plays

3,290

George MacDonald (December 10, 1824 – September 18, 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. Though no longer a household name, his works (particularly his fairy tales and fantasy novels) have inspired deep admiration in such notables as W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Madeleine L'Engle. C. S. Lewis wrote that he regarded MacDonald as his "master". Picking up a copy of Phantastes one day in a train station (presumably from a railway station bookstall) <a href="https://www.la

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. A short history of<i>SHELX</i>

   · 2007 · cited 79,937x

2. Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test

   · 1997 · cited 48,614x

3. Crystal structure refinement with<i>SHELXL</i>

   · 2015 · cited 40,865x

4. PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation

   · 2018 · cited 36,102x

5. <i>SHELXT</i>– Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination

   · 2015 · cited 27,619x

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Quotes

• “I think the reason children get tired of their toys so soon is just that it is against human nature to be really interested in what is of no use. If you say that a beautiful thing is always interesting, I answer, that a beautiful thing is of the highest use. Is not the diamond that flashes all its colours into the heart of a poet as useful as the diamond with which the glazier divides the sheets of glass into panes for our windows?”
• “To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.”
• “Two people may be at the same spot in manners and behaviour, and yet one may be getting better, and the other worse, which is the greatest of differences that could possibly exist between them.”
• “"In the midst of life we are in death," said one; it is more true that in the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow — a word for that which cannot be — a negation, owing the very idea of itself to that which it would deny. But for life there could be no death. If God were not, there would not even be nothing. Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.”
• “I firmly believe people have hitherto been a great deal too much taken up about doctrine and far too little about practice. The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory. I preached a sermon about this. We are far too anxious to be definite and to have finished, well-polished, sharp-edged systems — forgetting that the more perfect a theory about the infinite, the surer it is to be wrong, the more impossible it is to be right.”
• “What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1824-12-10 ) 10 December 1824, Huntly , Aberdeenshire , Scotland

Died

18 September 1905 (1905-09-18) (aged 80), Ashtead , Surrey , England

Occupation

Congregational minister , writer, poet, novelist

Education

King's College , University of Aberdeen

Period

19th century

Genre

Children's literature

Notable works

Phantastes (1858) David Elginbrod (1863) At the Back of the North Wind (1871) The Princess and the Goblin (1872) The Princess and Curdie (1883) Lilith (1895)

Spouse

Louisa Powell ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1851 ) ​

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