Ethic

1831-12-22 – 1913-03-14

**William Hale White** (22 December 1831 – 14 March 1913), known by his pseudonym *Mark Rutherford*, was a British writer and civil servant.[1][2] His obituary in The Times stated that the "employment of a pseudonym, and sometimes of two (for some of 'Mark Rutherford's' work was 'edited by his friend, Reuben Shapcott'), was sufficient to prove a retiring disposition, and Mr. Hale White was little before the world in person."[2] -Wikipedia not to be confused with William Hale-White (the son of William Hale White), or For the English footballer, Mark Rutherford

1632 – 1677

A Dutch philosopher of Sephardi/Portuguese origin. By laying the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe, he came to be considered one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza>Wikipedia</a>).