My last post about learning from the past got me to thinking about Confederate statues. As my son pointed out, what’s most objectionable about a statue of, for example, Robert E. Lee, isn’t that he had slaves or defended slavery, or even that he took up arms against the government. Continue reading On Confederate Statues
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Some People Know More Than I Do
“I know how unfashionable it is now to acknowledge in life or history any genius loftier than ourselves. Our democratic dogma has leveled not only all voters but all leaders; we delight to show that living geniuses are only mediocrities, and that dead ones are myths. … Since it is contrary to good manners to exalt ourselves, we achieve the same result by slyly indicating how inferior are the great men of the earth.” ~ Will Durant (The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time
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