1626 - Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth & buttons
1796 - Birth of Horace Mann, US, educator/author/editor (pioneered public schools)
1825 - Birth of Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist/humanist/Darwinist
1929 - Birth of Audrey Hepburn [Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston], Brussels Belgium
1941 - Birth of George F Will, political analyst (Night Line)
1942 - Food 1st rationed in US
1970 - Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandy Scheuer, William Schroeder, students at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard
George Will (Born this day 1941)
A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind
Fraternally, Philip Carter / Facebook / Great is Truth and mighty above all things (I Esdras 4:41)
1873 - John Stuart Mill great Empiricist philosopher, dies at 66
1876 - Truganini, "last" originating Tasmanian, dies
1891 - Helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian Theosophist, dies
1895 - Birth of Edmund Wilson, American critic/writer (Patriotic Gore)
1936 - Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (Underworld of Abendlandes), dies
1945 - V-E Day; Germany signs unconditional surrender, WWII ends in Europe
Oswald Spengler (Died this day 1936)
This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on
Fraternally, Philip Carter / Facebook / Great is Truth and mighty above all things (I Esdras 4:41)
In the first place, I deny everything but what I have all along admitted, the design on my part to free the slaves... That (refering to the bible in the court room) teaches me that all things whatsoever I would that men should do to me, I should do even so to them. It teaches me, further, to "remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them."... I believe that to have interfered as I have done as I have always freely admitted I have done in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I submit; so let it be done!
Fraternally, Philip Carter / Facebook / Great is Truth and mighty above all things (I Esdras 4:41)