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23NOV2023 – Quote of the Day

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Nobody is at liberty to attack several property and to say at the same time that he values civilisation. The history of the two cannot be disentangled. Civilisation is nothing more than a name for the old order of the Aryan world, dissolved but perpetually re-constituting itself under a vast variety of solvent influences, of which infinitely the most powerful have been those which have, slowly, and in some parts of the world much less perfectly than others, substituted several property for collective ownership.

Henry Sumner Maine

 

Note: several property refers to what we call private property.

21NOV2023 – Quote of the Day

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If … we meet a man of acknowledged mental superiority, whether generally or in his special department, it is our social duty by intelligent questioning, by an anxiety to learn from him, to force him to condescend to our ignorance, or join in our fun, till his broader sympathies are awakened, and he plays with us as if we were children. Indeed this very metaphor points out one of the very remarkable instances of social equality asserted by an inferior—I mean the outspoken freedom of the child—which possesses a peculiar charm, and often thaws the dignity or dissipates the reserve of the great man and woman whose superiority is a perpetual obstacle to them in ordinary society.

John Pentland Mahaffy

19NOV2023 – Quote of the Day

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There’s some say that we wan, some say that they wan,

Some say that nane wan at a’, man,

But one thing I’m sure that at Sheriff-Muir,

A battle there was which I saw, man.

And we ran and they ran, and they ran and we ran,

And we ran, and they ran awa’, man.

Murdoch McLennan

 

Battle of Sheriffmuir was an engagement in 1715 at the height of the Jacobite rising in England and Scotland