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4月27： Socrates, John Milton, Mary Wollstonecraft, Karl Pearson, Ulysses S. Grant, Ralph Waldo Emerson


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350 years ago on this day, 27th April 1667, John Milton, blind, poor and out of favour with the Restoration authorities, sold the copyright to his epic, Paradise Lost for just £10. An early example of authors getting squeezed!鬥士參孫

激情全消融， all passion spent. 
The Hogarth Press
http://hcshakespeare.blogspot.tw/…/all-passion-spent-hogart…

BBC Radio 4
5月7日 18:46
"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."



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"I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves."

 "It is a melancholy truth; yet such is the blessed effect of civilization! the most respectable women are the most oppressed; and, unless they have understandings far superiour to the common run of understandings, taking in both sexes, they must, from being treated like contemptible beings, become contemptible."
--from A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN (1792)

Wollstonecraft saw marriage as an institution that defined the upbringing of girls and limited the legal rights of women. Her attack on it extended everywhere: from education to property law, from the nature of women to the nature of humanity itself



Mary Wollstonecraft imagined life not exactly without men, but without marriage
Wollstonecraft was born on April 27th 1759
ECONOMIST.COM
Then along came passionate, bold Mary Wollstonecraft who caused a sensation by writing A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). She declared that both women and men were human beings endowed with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. She called for women to become educated.Apr 1, 1996

Mary Wollstonecraft--Equal Rights for Women - Foundation for ...

https://fee.org/articles/mary-wollstonecraft-equal-rights-for-women/

Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. He is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers, especially the writings ...Wikipedia
Born: Alopece
Died: 399 BC, Classical Athens
Notable ideas: Socratic method, Socratic irony, I know that I know nothing
Spouse: Xanthippe
Children: Lamprocles, Menexenus, Sophroniscus
Quotes

An unexamined life is not worth living.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
To find yourself, think for yourself.
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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other one isn't.
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.





Deaths

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson died in Concord, Massachusetts, on this day in 1882 (aged 78).
    "The Bell"
    I love thy music, mellow bell,
    I love thine iron chime,
    To life or death, to heaven or hell,
    Which calls the sons of Time.
    Thy voice upon the deep
    The home-bound sea-boy hails,
    It charms his cares to sleep,
    It cheers him as he sails.
    To house of God and heavenly joys
    Thy summons called our sires,
    And good men thought thy sacred voice
    Disarmed the thunder's fires.
    And soon thy music, sad death-bell,
    Shall lift its notes once more,
    And mix my requiem with the wind
    That sweeps my native shore.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. Wikipedia
    Born: May 25, 1803, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
    Died: April 27, 1882, Concord, Massachusetts, United States

    Quotes

    Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
    To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
    The only way to have a friend is to be one.

"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."
"Life is our dictionary."
"Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact."
American transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson died on this day in 1882. A philosopher and essayist, Emerson was also one of our most quotable authors, and his epigrams abound 135 years later.





The Grammar of Science is a book by Karl Pearson first published in hardback in 1892. In 1900, the second edition, published by Adam & Charles Black, appeared. The third, revised, edition was also published by Adam & Charles Black in 1911. Wikipedia

If you haven’t measured something, you really don’t know very much about it. 


Every great advance of science opens our eyes to facts which we had failed before to observe, and makes new demands on our powers of interpretation.

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