24 OCT 2013 by ideonexus
We Must Study the Hard Things So Our Children Can Enjoy t...
I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.Folksonomies: knowledge generations
Folksonomies: knowledge generations
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notesAn eloquent quote from John Adams in a letter to his wife.
19 APR 2013 by ideonexus
The Splits in Christianity Led to Religious Toleration
The spirit which animated the reformers did not introduce a real freedom of sentiment. Each religion, in the country in which it prevailed, had no indulgence but for certain opinions. Meanwhile, as the different creeds were opposed to each other, few opinions existed that had not been attacked or supported in some part of Europe. The new communions had beside been obliged to relax a little from their dogmatical rigour. They could not, without the grossest contradiction, confine the right of e... 1 notes
notesWhen there were many sects of Chrisianity, Europe had to grow tolerant of them.
08 JAN 2013 by ideonexus
George Washington Promotes Science and Literature
Nor am I less persuaded, that you will agree with me in opinion, that there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of Science and Literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. In one in which the measures of Government receive their impression so immediately from the sense of the Community as in ours it is proportionably essential. To the security of a free Constitution it contributes in various ways: By convincing those who are...
1 As the keys to happiness and to preserve liberty.
23 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
Doctors Interfere with the Living Principle
Doctor, no medicine.—We are machines made to live—organized expressly for that purpose.—Such is our nature.—Do not counteract the living principle.—Leave it at liberty to defend itself, and it will do better than your drugs. 1 notes
notesA quote from Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte on how living things know how to survive on their own without the interference of medicine.
30 AUG 2011 by ideonexus
Studying a Science as a Duty
The science of government is my duty. ... I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. 1 notes
notesBecause studying one science allows our children to study a wider variety of sciences, which allows their children to study and even wider array.
18 MAY 2011 by ideonexus
Washington Promotes Science and Education
...there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness. In one in which the measures of government receive their impression so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours, it is proportionably essential. To the security of a free constitution it contributes in various ways: by convincing those who are entrusted with the public administration, that every valuable ... 1 notes
notesIn order to ensure a strong democracy.
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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notesReminds me of the Mortgage crisis, when homes became a source of money and every effort was made to over-inflate their value.
