And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, November 24, 2018
The Stone Prism of Esarhaddon
Black basalt rectangular-sided monument recording Esarhaddon’s restoration of Babylon, 670BC (via British Museum).
In our electronic day and age, what of our writing and thought will be preserved so well for so long?
The library that we shot off on Voyagers 1 and 2 can't be re-written (easily) by the progressive movement. Everything else...including re-runs of Amos and Andy, are subject to revisionist book-burning. Paper burns at 451 Fahrenheit...
The library that we shot off on Voyagers 1 and 2 can't be re-written (easily) by the progressive movement. Everything else...including re-runs of Amos and Andy, are subject to revisionist book-burning. Paper burns at 451 Fahrenheit...
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