What thwarts the experience of newness, of the constant renewal intrinsic to life? In the natural world, all things are being made new constantly, but human begins, who are according to some the ultimate product of natural selection and are to others the stewards of a benevolent God's creation, seem to have a hard time …
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Individualized Medicine
It wasn't too long ago that clothing and shoes were made by tailors and cobblers who were skilled in customizing their products for the customers they served. The industrial revolution almost put an end to that approach, as products made by machines caught the eye and pocketbooks of consumers everywhere and tailors and cobblers all …
The Vicissitudes of Nations
And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual, anxious, and unceasing effort to reduce that, which at any times exists, as fast as shall be practicable consistently with integrity and good faith. - Alexander Hamilton If there is anything …
Tools for Future Operation
But that time is not lost which is employed in providing tools for future operation: more especially as in this case the books put into the hands of the youth for this purpose may be such as will at the same time impress their minds with useful facts and good principles. If this period be …
Consent of the People
The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of the consent of the people. The streams of national power ought to flow immediately from that pure, original fountain of all legislative authority. - Alexander Hamilton The consent of the people is not consent if it is uneducated or uninformed. I fear …
Guardian of Every Other Right
The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon ... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. - James Madison It's hard to imagine a time in the American experience where the people and indeed the majority of our elected representatives …
Cessation of Want
Rest is many things, but a definition I've found to be useful over the years is that rest is the cessation of want. This does not define every aspect of rest, as you can also find, for example, rest in action. The latter is a bit more challenging, and if you are presently short on …
The Doors of Perception
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern. - William Blake We haughtily claim to have evolved well beyond our cave-dwelling forefathers, but in many ways we remain cavemen …
Shadows of Liberty
The Ass and His Shadow by Aesop A traveler hired an Ass to convey him to a distant place. The day being intensely hot, and the sun shining in its strength, the Traveler stopped to rest, and sought shelter from the heat under the Shadow of the Ass. As this afforded only protection for one, …
Liberty and Greatness
A people who still remembered that their ancestors had been the masters of the world would have applauded, with conscious pride, the representation of ancient freedom, if they had not long since been accustomed to prefer the solid assurance of bread to the unsubstantial visions of liberty and greatness. - Edward Gibbons "The Rise and …
Gregory Hake 