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19 02, 2016

History and nemesis, the natural and moral sciences

By |2016-11-02T11:52:15-04:00February 19th, 2016|2016, Debate / dialogue, Everything Else, February, History, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, U.S. / Canada, Writing|0 Comments

Thoughts of Frederick Douglass on finding the trajectory of moral and social justice in the course of history. There is, in the world's government, a force which has in all ages been recognized, sometimes as Nemesis, sometimes as the judgment of God and sometimes as retributive justice; but under whatever name, all history attests the [...]

15 02, 2016

George Washington summons the meaning of the moment (1783)

By |2016-11-02T11:52:15-04:00February 15th, 2016|2016, Arts, Everything Else, February, History, Literature, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

George Washington, at the close of the Revolution, imagines the nation in concert with philosophers and lawgivers, who foster letters, commerce, and well-being. The Citizens of America, placed in the most enviable condition, as the sole Lords and Proprietors of a vast Tract of Continent, comprehending all the various soils and climates of the World, [...]

30 12, 2015

Times old and new: “objective” creative engagement vs. “subjective” inward regression

By |2016-11-02T11:52:45-04:00December 30th, 2015|2015, Arts, December, Europe, Everything Else, History, Literature, Quotes|0 Comments

"As long as poets express merely their puny subjective impressions, they are not worth the name; but as soon as they know how to appropriate and express the world, they are poets. For then they are inexhaustible and can be constantly new, as opposed to a subjective nature, which quickly expresses its meagre inner life [...]

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