Ralph Waldo Trine

American New Thought writer

Ralph Waldo Trine

Born| 9 September 1866[1]

Mount Morris, Illinois

Died| 22 February 1958

Claremont, California

Occupation| Writer
Spouse| Grace Steele Hyde Trine

Ralph Waldo Trine (9 September 1866 – 22 February 1958) was an American New Thought writer, philosopher and animal welfare activist.

## Biography[edit]

Trine was born in Mount Morris, Illinois to Ellen E. Newcomer and Samuel G. Trine.[1][2] He was educated at Knox College where he graduated A.B. in 1891. He studied history and political science at Johns Hopkins University and obtained his A.M. from Knox College in 1893.[2]

Trine married Grace Steele Hyde and they had one son.[2][3] As a young man he worked as a correspondent for the Boston Evening Transcript. During this time he became influenced by the idealistic philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson.[2] Trine was also influenced by George Herron's Christian socialism.[4] Trine's spiritual views have been described as being a mixture of Buddhism, pantheism, spiritualism, transcendentalism, Christian socialism, and neo-Vedanta philosophy.[5]

Trine authored In Tune with the Infinite which has remained the most popular publication in the New Thought movement.[6] It was translated into 20 languages.[2] Unlike most other New Thought writers, Trine did not resort to mental money making advice and has been described as "one of the rare purists whose books were guileless optimism".[7] In the 1920s, Trine became associated with Henry Ford and published some of their conversations in The Power that Wins.[2]

Trine lived and worked on a fruit farm in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.[8][3]

## Animal welfare[edit]

Trine was a vegetarian for ethical reasons and supported animal welfare.[9] His book Every Living Creature called for kindness to animals and advocated a vegetarian diet.[9][10] He was the director of the American Humane Education Society and the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.[1][3]

## Selected publications[edit]

* In Tune with the Infinite, T. Y. Crowell & Company, 1897
* Every Living Creature, T. Y. Crowell & Company, 1899
* The Greatest Thing Ever Known, T. Y. Crowell & Company, 1898
* In the Fire of the Heart, McClure, Philips & Co, 1906
* The Wayfarer On The Open Road, George Bell and Sons, 1908
* My Philosophy and My Religion, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1921
* The Power that Wins, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1929

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c Marquis, Albert Nelson (1918). "Who's Who in America: Volume 10, 1918-1919". Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. p. 2742
2. ^ a b c d e f Melton, J. Gordon (1999). "Religious Leaders of America". The Gale Group. p. 574
3. ^ a b c Bateman, Newton (1909). "Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois". Chicago: Munsell Publishing Company. p. 1041
4. ^ McKanan, Dan (2010). "The Implicit Religion of Radicalism: Socialist Party Theology, 1900–1934". Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 78 (3): 750–789. doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfq050. JSTOR 27919235.
5. ^ McMahan, David L (2008). The Making of Buddhist Modernism. Oxford University Press. p. 178. ISBN 978-0-19-518327-6
6. ^ Butler, Jon (2006). "Theory and God in Gotham". History and Theory. 45 (4): 47–61. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2303.2006.00383.x. JSTOR 3874096.
7. ^ Griswold, Alfred Whitney (1938). "New Thought: A Cult of Success". American Journal of Sociology. 40 (3): 309–318. doi:10.1086/216744. JSTOR 2768263. S2CID 144085744.
8. ^ Williams, Talcott (1925). "The New International Encyclopædia: Volume 22". New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. p. 475
9. ^ a b Helstosky, Carol (2014). The Routledge History of Food. Taylor & Francis. p. 186. ISBN 978-0-415-62847-1
10. ^ Iacobbo, Karen; Iacobbo, Michael (2004). Vegetarian America: A History. Praeger. p. 114. ISBN 0-275-97519-3

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Animal welfare

Issues|

* Abandoned pets
* Blood sports
* Chick culling
* Cormorant culling
* Livestock dehorning
* Eating live animals
* Eating live seafood
* Intensive animal farming
* Intensive pig farming
* Overview of discretionary invasive procedures on animals
* Dairy farming
* Poultry farming
* Puppy mill
* Vivisection
* Welfare of farmed insects
* Wild animal suffering
* Wildlife farming
* Feedback (pork industry)
* Foam depopulation
* Ventilation shutdown

Concepts|

* Abnormal behaviours in animals
* Animal psychopathology
* Animal shelter
* Animal welfare science
* Anthrozoology
* Behavioral enrichment
* Compassionate conservation
* Conservation welfare
* Ethics of uncertain sentience
* Ethical omnivorism
* Five freedoms
* Humane law enforcement
* Intrinsic value in animal ethics
* Rescue group
* Three Rs principles
* Welfare biology

Pain in
nonhuman animals|

* Pain in animals
* Pain in amphibians
* Pain in cephalopods
* Pain in crustaceans
* Pain in fish
* Pain in invertebrates
* Grimace scale

Organisations|

* ASPCA
* Animal Defenders International
* Animal Welfare Party
* American Humane
* Animal Aid Unlimited
* Animal Welfare Board of India
* Animal Welfare Institute
* Badger Trust
* Battersea
* Blue Cross
* Blue Cross of India
* Cats Protection
* Compassion in World Farming
* CAWF
* Cinnamon Trust
* Dogs Trust
* DSPCA
* Eurogroup for Animals
* Four Paws
* Hedgehog Care
* HSUS
* International Animal Rescue
* IFAW
* International Society for Applied Ethology
* ISPCA
* List of animal welfare organizations
* League Against Cruel Sports
* Marine Connection
* Network for Animals
* Lord Dowding Fund for Humane Research
* MSPCA-Angell
* National Animal Welfare Trust
* National Anti-Vivisection Society
* OneKind
* Party for Animal Welfare
* People for Animals
* People's Dispensary for Sick Animals
* RNZSPCA
* RSPCA
* RSPCA Australia
* Save Me
* SSPCA
* Tiggywinkles
* UFAW
* Wildlife Aid Foundation
* World Animal Protection
* World Horse Welfare

Publications|

* Animal Welfare
* Our Dumb Animals
* The Zoophilist

Activists
and workers|

| Contemporary|

* Michael C. Appleby
* Cynthia Bathurst
* Matthew E. Bershadker
* Christa Blanke
* Moira Brown
* Jan Cameron
* Judy MacArthur Clark
* Kendra Coulter
* Peter Ronald Davies
* Petra Deimer
* Alanna Devine
* Robin Ganzert
* Celia Hammond
* Alison Hanlon
* Brian Hare
* Kathrin Glock
* Emily Patterson-Kane
* Philip Lymbery
* Damien Mander
* Christine Nicol
* Wayne Pacelle
* Sharon Pincott
* Ilka Reinhardt
* Jill Robinson
* Naomi Sagara
* Sepehr Salimi
* Adolfo Sansolini
* Rakesh Shukla
* Karen Stockin
* Patti Strand
* Sally Varma
* Tina M. Widowski

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Historical|

* Gertrude Ansell
* Emily Appleton
* Madeleine Bemelmans
* Henry Bergh
* Mary Brancker
* Victoria Braithwaite
* Roger A. Caras
* Jim Cronin
* Brian Davies
* Maria Dickin
* Marjorie Doggett
* Muriel Dowding
* Alice Drakoules
* Sarah J. Eddy
* Aida McAnn Flemming
* Lucy Furman
* Julia Goddard
* Robert Gower
* Colesworthey Grant
* George Greenwood
* Peter Gurney
* Velma Bronn Johnston
* Catherine Victoria Hall
* Rachel Hirschfeld
* Sjoerd Hofstra
* Albert Knapp
* Titus Lander
* Carla Lane
* Etta Lemon
* Victoria Lidiard
* Terry Maple
* Richard Martin
* Shirley McGreal
* Harriet Nevins
* Catherine Louisa Pirkis
* Eliza Phillips
* Maude Gillette Phillips
* Samuel Jackson Pratt
* Wilfred Risdon
* Peter Roberts
* Jan Salter
* Catherine Smithies
* Thomas Bywater Smithies
* Herbert Snow
* Ellin Prince Speyer
* Christine Stevens
* Elisabeth Svendsen
* Mary Tealby
* Ralph Waldo Trine
* Sidney Trist
* Ethel Venton
* Jessey Wade
* Christopher Wathes
* Franz Weber
* Caroline Earle White
* Emily Williamson
* H. Fergie Woods
* Alice Morgan Wright
* Gretchen Wyler

Scholars
and writers|

| Contemporary|

* Arnold Arluke
* Jonathan Balcombe
* Michael Balls
* Geoffrey Barstow
* Marc Bekoff
* Donald Broom
* Marian Dawkins
* Bruce Fogle
* Jane Goodall
* Temple Grandin
* Celia Haddon
* Jane Hurst
* Erich Hoyt
* Barbara J. King
* Alistair Lawrence
* David Macdonald
* Jeremy Marchant
* Jeff McMahan
* Daniel Mills
* Sy Montgomery
* Virginia Morell
* Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell
* Clare Palmer
* Susan J. Pearson
* Dale Peterson
* Jessica Pierce
* Diana Reiss
* Carl Safina
* Matthew Scully
* Paul Shapiro
* Jennifer Skiff
* Peter Wohlleben

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Historical|

* George T. Angell
* Patrick Bateson
* Beddow Bayly
* Ernest Bell
* Edward Berdoe
* Arthur Broome
* Jean Burden
* Gerald Carson
* Stephen Coleridge
* Christian Adam Dann
* J. Morewood Dowsett
* Audrey Eyton
* George Fleming
* Ralph Fletcher
* Ruth Harrison
* C. W. Hume
* E. Douglas Hume
* James Macaulay
* Basheer Ahmad Masri
* Francis Orpen Morris
* George Nicholson
* Siobhan O'Sullivan
* Charles Reinhardt
* Francis H. Rowley
* W. M. S. Russell
* Chris Sherwin
* Colin Spedding
* William O. Stillman
* Bell Taylor
* Ernst von Weber
* D. G. M. Wood-Gush
* Frans de Waal
* Hugh Wirth
* William Youatt

Categories|

* Animal advocacy parties
* Animal killing
* Animal rights
* Animal welfare and rights legislation
* Animal sacrifice
* Animal sanctuaries
* Animal testing
* Animal welfare and rights by country
* Cruelty to animals
* Dishes involving the consumption of live animals
* Fur trade
* People associated with animal welfare
* Whaling

Religious
considerations|

* Dhabihah
* Jhatka
* Kutha
* Shechita
* Tza'ar ba'alei chayim

Rituals and
festivals|

* Blessing of animals
* Bous al carrer
* Cock throwing
* Combat de Reines
* Eid al-Adha
* Gadhimai festival
* Goat throwing
* Goose pulling
* International Primate Day
* Kapparot
* Lychee and Dog Meat Festival
* Monkey Buffet Festival
* October Horse
* Pushkar Camel Fair
* Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo
* Running of the bulls
* Surin Elephant Round-up
* Toro embolado
* World Animal Day

Legislation|

* Animal testing regulations
* Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (UK)
* Animal Welfare Act 1999 (NZ)
* Animal Welfare Act of 1966 (US)
* EU Directive 2010/63/EU (EU)
* EU Directive 1999/74/EC (EU)
* Horse Protection Act of 1970 (US)
* Hunting Act 2004 (US)
* List of international animal welfare conventions
* Philippine Animal Welfare Act 1998 (Philippines)

Related|

* List of animal rights advocates

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