“Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.”
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Jacob Burckhardt
“The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state’s power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or may be considered the result of a contract, etc. People begin to dispute the sacred right of the individual ruler or authority without being aware that at the same time they are playing into the hands of a colossal state power.”
Jacob Burckhardt, Reflections on History
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Habeas corpus
On May 27, 1863, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney of Maryland issued Ex parte Merryman, challenging the authority of President Abraham Lincoln to suspend the writ of habeas corpus in Maryland, the legal procedure that prevents the government from holding an individual indefinitely without showing cause.
Two days earlier, John Merryman, a vocal secessionist, had been arrested in Cockeysville. Although military officials continued to arrest suspected Southern sympathizers, the incident led to a softening of the policy.
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Jacob Burckhardt
“Nothing in the world is better suited to laziness than orthodoxy. If you gag your mouth, stop up your ears and put a blinder over your eyes, you can sleep peacefully.”
Jacob Burckhardt was a teacher and reserved, cautious mentor to Friedrich Nietzsche.
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John Calvin
“There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.”
John Calvin, De Vita Hominis Christiani, 1550.
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Burckhardt Born
May 25, 1818, the Swiss historian and academic Jacob Burckhardt was born. Burckhardt’s best known work is The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860), but is remembered here as the author of Reflections on History (1905).
Erratum: In our daily email, we erroneously gave May 25 as the date for William of Okham’s fleeing the papal city of Avignon. That event, and John Calvin’s banishment years later, both occurred on May 26 of their respective years. We are sorry for the error.
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Townhall: What We Owe Our Troops
Tomorrow is Memorial Day. It’s not just another day off work. Don’t just mouth patriotism. Make the most of it.
Click on over to Townhall.com. Then come back here for more reading:
- Wikipedia: United States military casualties of war
- Wikipedia: Terrorist
- Military Times: Little progress at VA year after Shinseki departure
- InfoWars.com: How Far Will The Establishment Go To Prop Up Support For Its Many Wars And Make Average Americans Believe We Are Overseas Fighting For ’Freedom’?
- Althouse: They Should Ask Hillary If It Was Good
- Washington Times: Rand Paul Eager to Question Hillary on Iraq
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VIdeo: Regulating Halloween Costumes
Jerry Brown has no need to be in your shower, or all up in your business on your lawn.
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Frédéric Passy
“There are people who think the natives of Dahomey very barbarous, because, on the accession of a king, they believe it well to sail a little vessel in human blood in order to tell the fortunes of the new monarch. Now the blood of a thousand slaves is enough for the purpose, whilst in our so-called civilized countries, the great powers, for prestige, or power, or revenge, will shed the blood, not of a thousand, but of 10,000, of 500,000, of millions of persons, enough to make bloody the mightiest river of Europe or America. And yet we dare to treat as barbarians the people of Dahomey.”
Frédéric Passy, from a speech promoted widely in its day (late 19th century) by The Peace and Arbitration Society.
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Frédéric Passy
“The entire able-bodied population are preparing to massacre one another; though no one, it is true, wants to attack, and everybody protests his love of peace and determination to maintain it, yet the whole world feels that it only requires some unforeseen incident, some unpreventable accident, for the spark to fall in a flash . . . and blow all Europe sky-high.”
Frédéric Passy, February 4, 1895