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Saturday, December 9, 2017

"mensuration of the faculties of the mind has, I believe, no place in the catalogue of known arts."

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     Alexander Hamilton, The federalist no. 79 ( McLean's edition (New York)).

"the rage for objection which disorders their imaginations and judgments."

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     Alexander Hamilton, The federalist no. 78 (28 May 1788).

"The supposition of universal venality in human nature is little less an error in political reasoning than the supposition of universal rectitude."

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     Alexander Hamilton, The federalist no. 76 ( New-York packet, 1 April 1788).
Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Do pagans dream of the Cath'lic deep?

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Emmanuel College, Cambridge "Nobody in the West can be wholly non-Christian. We cannot help continuing to be influenced by the old ...

Be a vessel, not a channel, a lake without an outlet

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William Pye, Cathedral font, Salibury. "The man who is wise . . . will see his life as more like a reservoir [(concham)] than a ca...
Saturday, December 2, 2017

Cantemus Alleluia

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Samoan firefighters singing an Alleluia as they come off of the fireline, Helena Fire, Trinity County, CA, September 2017. "[1...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

Prize the reality of virtue over the appearance of it

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It was a goodly Swaine, and of great might, | As euer man that bloudy field did fight; | But in vaine sheows, that wont yong knights bewitch...
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