18 APR 2011 by ideonexus

 Botany is Good for the Soul

Botany is a branch of Natural History that possesses many advantages; it contributes to health of body and cheerfulness of disposition, by presenting an inducement to take air and exercise; it is adapted to the simplest capacity, and the objects of its investigation offer themselves without expense or difficulty, which renders them attainable to every rank in life; but with all these allurements, till of late years, it has been confined to the circle of the leamed, which may be attributed to ...
Folksonomies: science botany well being
Folksonomies: science botany well being
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It gets you out in the air and improves your mood.

08 JAN 2011 by ideonexus

 The Use of Gold for Money Leads to Efforts to Inflate Its...

Gold is abused and made into vessels of dishonour, and abolished from ideal society as though it were the cause instead of the instrument of human baseness; but, indeed, there is nothing bad in gold. Making gold into vessels of dishonour and banishing it from the State is punishing the hatchet for the murderer's crime. Money, did you but use it right, is a good thing in life, a necessary thing in civilised human life, as complicated, indeed, for its purposes, but as natural a growth as the bo...
Folksonomies: economics
Folksonomies: economics
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Reminds me of the Mortgage crisis, when homes became a source of money and every effort was made to over-inflate their value.