We have never accepted
really multiracialism. … We are fighting for a society where people will cease
thinking in terms of colour … It’s not a question of race; it’s a question of
ideas.[1]
Thoughts on Canadian Political Culture: Criticisms, Reviews and the Poverty of Parliament
Excavations
... nothing is more essential to public interest than the preservation of public liberty.
- David Hume
Monday, January 30, 2017
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Gibbon (again) on Trump
In every age, the absence of genuine
inspiration is supplied by the strong illusions of enthusiasm and the mimic
arts of imposture.[1]
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776
[1]
Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire, ed., Hans-Friedrich Mueller (New York: The Modern
Library/Random House, 2003), p. 440.
Sunday, January 22, 2017
Gregory of Tours comments:
A great many things keep happening, some of them good, some of them bad. The inhabitants of different countries keep quarrelling fiercely with each other and kings go on losing their temper in a most furious way.[1]
Gregory of Tours (c. AD 538-594), The History of the Franks
[1] Gregory of Tours, The
History of the Franks, tr. Lewis Thorpe (Toronto: Penguin, 1974) p.
63. Tours in writing in post-Roman Gaul. These comments appear in his Preface.
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