slumgullion
This refers to cheap and not so filling stew. Webster's says that it comes from words meaning slime and cesspool. It's basically a stew reminiscent of a cesspool of slime. Not so appetizing. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slumgullion
After all, no Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in.
She has a point.
They have the usual Socialist disease: they have run out of other people's money
This is an interesting take on things. It does take money, though, to care for people.
26 per cent a year.
This is an insane rate of inflation. Insane. For comparison, our inflation rate right now is around 2%.
"The people in Washington were too bloody frightened, Werner. The stupid bastards at the top thought the Russkies were going to move this way and take over the Western Sector of the city. They were relieved to see a wall going up."
I wonder if this is true.
Walls and fences, gates and barriers, endless white lines to mark out the traffic lanes. Most recently they'd built a huge walled compound where the tourist buses were searched and tapped and scrutinized by gloomy men who pushed wheeled mirrors under every vehicle lest one of their fellow-countrymen was clinging there.
I've been through that countless times coming up from Mexico! Ironic.
The United States stands at this time at the pinnacle of world power. It is a solemn moment for the American democracy. With primacy in power is also joined an awe-inspiring accountability to the future.
This is so true and I think that many of our citizens don't realize the importance of this. If we can do something to help another, then we have a moral obligation to do so. I have come across the mindset that we should only be concerned with the well-being of our own people. I strongly disagree. We do have power and we should not use it selfishly. No human being is more deserving than any other. An American isn't more important than someone from a different country. Everyone matters, regardless of country or status.
If someone's neighbor was being beaten, I would hope that they would intervene. It's wrong to stand by while someone needs help. Why should that be different on an international scale?
Ideally, whoever is in power should be an example of good humanity.
But perhaps the greatest battle of all in those early days was a personal one. Smith had to adjust his warm, sentimental, domestic nature to the grim agonising sights of the night. He loves humanity, in all its virtue and vice, and it was a shock for him to see the pain and distortion of life around him.
This is why the good people of the world can't just stand by and try to negotiate with evil. Hitler's kind of evil grows and invades and destroys the minds and bodies of the innocent.
She has suffered in every respect by her association with the Western democracies and with the League of Nations, of which she has always been an obedient servant. She has suffered in particular from her association with France, under whose guidance and policy she has been actuated for so long. . . .
It's such a sad thing.
their conduct of affairs in this recent crisis which has saved Czechoslovakia from destruction and Europe from Armageddon.
Unfortunately, this was like giving a bully your lunch money to appease him. Tomorrow he will be back for more. Hitler certainly took this success and came back for far more.
Fill full the mouth of Famine And bid the sickness cease
This is humanity's burden. Skin color has nothing to do with it.
Conversation, for instance, is one great source of a woman's influence
I must make a terrible woman. I am terrible at conversation.
Her presence may be a pledge against impropriety and excess, a check on vice, and a protection to virtue.
I really don't like her idea that women are responsible for the morality of men. Men are perfectly capable of moral character, and when they fail, it is not their wife's fault.
His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right.
The first thing that came to my mind when reading this is involuntary psych holds. There are times when compelling a person to do something that they don't want to do for their own good is a good thing. Also, I wonder what he would say about our drug laws. We make it illegal for people to harm themselves with certain substances. Should people be tree to do whatever they want to their own body?
dinner
I believe this refers to the midday meal, as opposed to supper later in the article. Some parts of England and Scotland still refer to the midday meal as dinner.
Secondly, That the passion between the sexes is necessary and will remain nearly in its present state.
I suppose this issue is largely fixed with birth control.
(1776)
This is the same year that we declared independence.
Wait... We can annotate lectures?
course
Coursing is a hunting activity where sighthounds are used to chase down game by sight and speed, as opposed to the quintessential picture many have of the English hunt where fox hounds followed by nobility on horses are chasing foxes by scent.
Was all his fun, he spared for no expense. . .
I wonder where a monk would have gotten enough money to be able to have "spared for no expense".
Greyhounds
I am sure we all know what Greyhounds are, but I want to say that they are sighthounds in hunting, meaning that they chase game by sight and speed, not by scent. This is in contrast to scenthouds, like the Beagle and the Bloodhound and the Foxhound, which have been used in this part of the world in hunting for their scenting abilities.
As to the girdle that my father promised me, I spoke to him about it a little while before he last went to London, and he said to me that it was your fault, because you would not think about having it made: but I expect that it is not so -- he said it just as an excuse.
I am not sure that I would want the men in my life arguing about who is in charge of my undergarments.
there appeared unto her a thing somewhat bigger than a mouse, of a brown color, when she lived at Titsmarsh in the county of Northampton, she being in bed and asleep, which nipped her on the breast and awakened her, then it told her that it must have part of her soul: she prayed then to God, and it left her at that time, and the said informant heard the said Anne further say, that about five or six days after, the same mouse appeared again to her with another much like the former, it being a little less than the former, and had a white belly. Then the mouse that came first said, we must abide with you and suck your blood.
This looks like schizophrenia. She seems to be describing delusions and hallucinations. The delusions and hallucinations of many people with schizophrenia involve dark and scary themes like this.
But it is a miracle that a dead man should come to life
He is probably referring to Jesus. One of his miracles is the resurrection.
Rule III. The qualities of bodies which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees and which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.
It is with thought that we assume that physics and chemistry are universal. We can watch a distant part of our galaxy and use the science we learned here to what we see there, even though we'll never be able to actually go there. In this way, we can learn a lot about places that we can't visit.
Clarke said to this informant, I do not believe you are a witch, for I never saw you at our meetings: who answered, that perhaps their meetings were at several places, and so fell out and parted.
Since this entire report is based on what an informant said, it could all be lies.
method, order, and process
Without method, order, and process, science isn't really science.
which are of no use in themselves, but simply serve to discover causes
But discovering causes is a huge focus in science. What causes disease? What causes a tiny cell to turn into a baby? What causes the sky to be blue? What causes hurricanes? What causes the creation of a star? What causes cancer?
for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history and mechanical experiments and lay it up in the memory whole, as it finds it; but lays it up in the understanding altered and digested.
This is wise. Gathering and experimenting is pointless without analyzing the data. On the other end of the spectrum, just using one's mind without input from the natural is pointless.
And thus every man, by consenting with others to make one body politic under one government, puts himself under an obligation to every one of that society to submit to the determination of the majority, and to be concluded by it
I agree with this until a law is immoral or unethical. Then it's a different story.
be contented with as much liberty against other men as he would allow other men against himself
That's another way to state the Golden Rule.
For the savage people in many places of America, . . . have no government at all
I am guessing that this was widely assumed. Of course, it's not true at all.
rogation
I had to look this up. It means supplication.
KING JAMES I
This is King James of the King James version of the Bible.
the King, our sovereign lord, his heirs and successors, kings of this realm, shall be taken, accepted, and reputed the only Supreme Head in earth of the Church of England, called Anglicana Ecclesia [the Anglican Church]
Given the teachings of Christianity and how most Christian denominations are set up, it's fairly shocking that a hereditary head of a denomination was successfully set up and is still in practice today.
Agriculture is the one occupation at which everyone works, men and women alike, with no exceptions.
What about the sick and disabled?
However abundant goods may be, when every man tries to get as much as he can for his own exclusive use, a handful of men end up sharing the whole thing, and the rest are left in poverty.
This is why we aren't a purely capitalist society. Having some regulation helps prevent this from getting too bad.
To one who does not understand, everything seems impossible: but when things are understood, everything becomes clear. I would guess that whoever first undertook this task learned something about it from sense experience. Probably, someone who had formerly had a very active imagination suffered an injury to the front of his head and afterwards no longer possessed the imagination faculty, although his reason and memory remained unaffected. And when this happened it was noticed by the philosopher. And similarly injuries to other parts of the head impeded other functions of the mind so that it could be established with certainty which areas of the brain controlled which mental functions, especially since in some men these areas are marked by very fine lines. Therefore, from evidence of this sort, which could be perceived by the senses, an insensible and intellectual operation of the mind has been made clear.
Of course, the organization of the brain presented by the nephew is terribly inaccurate. I find it ironic that Adelard comes to the defense of that incorrect organization with what is actually a correct and useful method of determining the function of brain structures today. In other words, the conclusion is all wrong, but the method is useful! Much attention is spent today on assessing the victims of brain damage in order to try to further our understanding of the mysterious brain.
Whence some men, usurping the name of authority for themselves, have employed great license in writing, to such an extent that they do not hesitate to present the false as true to such animal-like men. For why not fill up sheets of paper, and why not write on the back too, when you usually have such readers today who require no rational explanation
What an interesting foreshadowing of the internet! We still have an issue with people believing anything they read...
Ceres’ sheaves
This is a reference to the Roman agricultural goddess, Ceres, who was often depicted with sheaves of wheat.
Saint Thomas the Martyr [Thomas Becket]
Thomas Becket was sainted only 2 years after his death (that's quite quick) and only 1 year before this was written.
These things we have written concerning him, both good and evil, that good men may imitate their goodness, and wholly flee from the evil,
I like that the they are showing both the good and bad and not just praising him senselessly, like we see in many accounts of rulers.