SOURCE: "Hypatia" in The Complete Writings of Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Shop, 1908, pp. 51-79.
In the essay below, Hubbard offers an elaborate account of Hypatia's life and thought, stressing her independent mind and spirit as well as her indebtedness to Plato and Plotinus. Throughout, Hubbard uses details of her biography to express his personal antipathy to formal systems of religion.
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