Benjamin Rush

And then I came up with the idea of Benjamin Rush, and I suggested it to my agent, and he -- my agent is one of these people who say, Write what you want to write, and then let me worry about selling it.

Benjamin Rush: Patriot and Physician 2004

In the weeks before the meeting, as Pipes was thinking through the concept, her husband, Claremont McKenna College professor Charles Kesler, suggested that its title refer to Benjamin Rush, a doctor who signed the Declaration of Independence and served with the army in the American Revolution.

Forbes.com: News Avik Roy 2011

There was a Philadelphia ship, called the Benjamin Rush, at

Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast James Fenimore Cooper 1820

Countryside 6 (1998) (hereinafter Parkerson) (noting that early education activists, such as Benjamin Rush, believed public schools “helped control the innate selfishness of the individual”).

Glenn Loury and John McWhorter on McCain and Obama at the Saddleback Civil Forum. Ann Althouse 2008

Countryside 6 (1998) (hereinafter Parkerson) (noting that early education activists, such as Benjamin Rush, believed public schools “helped control the innate selfishness of the individual”).

Archive 2007-06-01 Ann Althouse 2007

Benjamin Rush argued for the abolition of both slavery and masturbation.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

In 1788, while the states were ratifying the Constitution, Benjamin Rush recommended the elimination of fairs, horse racing, cockfighting, and Sunday amusements, which led to “gaming—drunkenness—and uncleanness” as well as “habits of idleness and a love of pleasure.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Benjamin Rush best explained why America had to attack sensual pleasure.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

In the 1810s and 1820s, Benjamin Rush authored a series of sexual manuals for the new nation in which he declared that indulgence in bodily pleasures, “when excessive, becomes a disease of both the body and mind.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

One of the first to advocate the idea was Benjamin Rush, a physician and signer of the Declaration and an early voice of abolition in America.

Kenneth C. Davis: A Sweet Assault on Slavery Kenneth C. Davis 2011