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

Events

The London Library

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."

John Milton and the enduring influence of Paradise Lost

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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/

• 1967 – Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.
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• 1974 – Ten thousand march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of U.S. President Richard Nixon
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• 1981 – Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.

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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Births

• 1822 – Ulysses S. Grant, American general and politician, 18th President of the United States (d. 1885)

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.

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• 1910 – Chiang Ching-kuo, Chinese politician, 3rd President of the Republic of China (d. 1988)
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• 1955 – Eric Schmidt, American engineer and businessman

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.

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• 1936 – Karl Pearson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1857)

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.