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 …
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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 …
Work by Thinking
"I don’t want to have riders who tire themselves out. Work by thinking instead." - Nuno Oliveira Working without thinking reduces the human being to the level of robotic function. Just as a thinking rider will progress more quickly than one who follows and imposes a rigid pattern upon his horse, a thinking worker will …
A Child Again
A Child Again by Gregg Hake O' to be a child again－ Without the coats of fear and sin, By words not spoken. Free to run and leap and play Without the weight of yesterday. O' to be a child again－ Undaunted by the Christ within, My heart ne'er broken. What's that you say, young …
Human History
Human history is a footrace of ideas. Ideas surge forth when embraced and employed by large numbers of people, while others fade back into the pack when they are abandoned for new concepts and beliefs. The primary contenders in our era include, but are not limited to the body of ideas broadly described as science …
Gregory Hake 