David Livingstone Quotes


Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.


Citations

Blaikie, William Garden. The Personal Life of David Livingstone. John Murray, 1880, p. 34.

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David Livingstone
David Livingstone
  • Born: March 19, 1813
  • Died: May 1, 1873
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Explorer

David Livingstone was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, and pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century Victorian era. He had a mythic status that operated on a number of interconnected levels: Protestant missionary martyr, working-class "rags-to-riches" inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of British commercial and colonial expansion.