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- David Hume



Saturday, January 1, 2022

Danger: a definition for the Jan. 6 committee – in a Tweet

‘danger’ comes etymologically from Latin, dominus, ‘lord’ – to submit to another.[1]



[1] See Gillian Rose, The Broken Middle: Out of our Ancient Society (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell 1992), p. 159.  Or any good dictionary.

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