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Next comes David, We
give public money, and must see that it goes to public use. Tell
your money, fix it to public ends, and take order against occasions
of this nature for the future. We cannot live at the expence of
Spain, that has the Indies; or France, who has so many millions of
revenue. Let us look to our Government, Fleet, and Trade. 'Tis the
advice that the oldest Parliament-man among you can give you; and
so, God bless you! |
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Godwin was the inspiring intelligence behind the humanist attitudes of the English Romantic poets and Utopian societies.
His spiritual anarchism is still a relevant concept.
Vancouver Sun. William Godwin, English author and social theorist, was born on March 3, 1756
As the true object of
education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is
rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him
into new trains of thinking.
William Godwin; 'Of Choice in Reading', The Enquirer (1797)
Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking
for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and
imbecility.
William Godwin;
Enquiry
Concerning Political Justice (1793),
Vol. 2, Bk. 6, Ch. 1
The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute
force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to
reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man
to think for himself.
William Godwin; ibid, Vol. 2, Bk. 8, Ch. 6
Error of opinion may be
tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson, US statesman, (b. April 13, 1743);
First Inaugural Address, March 3, 1801
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with
– a man is what he makes of himself.
Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor, born on March 3, 1847
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
Alexander Graham Bell
I may be given credit for having blazed the trail but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
Alexander Graham Bell
When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Alexander Graham Bell
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
Alexander Graham Bell
Indeed, the ideal for a well-functioning democratic state is like the ideal for a gentleman's well-cut suit – it is not noticed. For the common people of Britain, Gestapo and concentration camps have approximately the same degree of reality as the monster of Loch Ness. Atrocity propaganda is helpless against this healthy lack of imagination.
Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-born British novelist/journalist/critic and proponent of euthanasia, who with his wife committed suicide on March 3, 1983 (from 'A Challenge to
"Knights in Rusty Armor"',
The New York Times, February
14, 1943)
March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar (63rd in leap years), with 303 days remaining.
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Munakata-No-Kama/Hina Matsuri, doll
festival, Japan
Today is the last day of the Doll Festival, when Japanese girls and women put away their dolls of the Emperor and the Empress and their court which have been on display since February 3, except in the province of Ishikawa where the festival begins on this day.
Many hina (ningyō) dolls dressed in old-style kimonos are family treasures handed down from mothers to daughters for generations. People partake of a sweet drink called shiro-sake today, or amazake, a sweet beverage made from fermented rice or sake lees. Traditionally, this festival celebrates the birth of the three Muna Katano-Kami, the Munakata Goddesses (the three daughters of Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess).
Formerly people believed the dolls possess the power to
conceal bad spirits in their bodies and will save the owner from dangerous
encounters.
Holidays of Japan See also Tango-No-Sekku, or Boys' Day, Japan Kodomo-No-Hi, or Children's Day, National Holiday
The Ember Days
Today is one
of several ember days of the year, a custom instituted by Pope Gelasius I (reigned
492 - 496) to seek God's blessing on the fruitfulness of the
earth. It was the practice to put ashes on one's head, but the name
might come from the Saxon emb-ren
or imb-ryne , meaning a course
or circuit, from the ember days' commemoration at four quarters of the
year,
namely: the first Wednesday, Friday and Saturday following, respectively,
the first Sunday in Lent (Quadragesima
Sunday); Whitsunday;
September 14
or, 'Holyrood Day'; and St Lucy's Day (December
13). Or, it comes from
the practice of putting ash on the head. There is also the breaking of a
fast with bread baked in embers, or ember-bread.
The weeks in which they fall are called ember
weeks.
Robert
Chambers, (Ed.), The
Book of Days:
A miscellany of popular antiquities in connection with the calendar, etc, W & R Chambers, London, 1881 (1879
Edition is online and 1869
edition here with CD-ROM available; See also The
English Year: A Personal Selection from Chambers' Book of Days)
In the Irish calendar they were known as Quarter tense. Much more at September 14 in the Book of Days.
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