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Sunday, March 6, 2011 6:56:00 PM
Charles Bayless wrote a blog post titled A lantern on the stern:
Charles said, "Coleridge, Specimens of the Table Talk of S.T.Coleridge If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the..." more
Thursday, February 24, 2011 4:19:50 PM
Charles Bayless wrote a blog post titled This field of glory is harvested:
Charles said, "Abraham Lincoln, Lyceum Address - The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions: Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois. This field of glory is harvested, and the crop is already appropriated. But new reapers will arise,..." more
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 10:16:08 AM
Charles Bayless wrote a blog post titled A habit of attentive clarity:
Charles said, "From Walter Russell Mead in his essay, Sun Tzu: The Enemy of the Bureaucratic Mind. The Art of War is a handbook for living in an uncertain and dangerous world. It is dominated by paradox: training is necessary to produce a good general, but any..." more
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 8:58:54 AM
Charles Bayless wrote a blog post titled They augur misgovernment at a distance:
Charles said, "Edmund Burke, On Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies, Speech to Parliament, Mar. 22, 1775. In other countries [than the American colonies], the people . . . judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance;..." more
Monday, February 21, 2011 5:00:52 PM
Charles Bayless wrote a blog post titled 'Tis new to thee:
Charles said, "From The Plagues of the Mind by Bruce S. Thorton, page 86. Without that contextualizing distance we fall into the trap of what Gary Saul Morson calls "chronocentricism," the arrogant "temporal egotism" that judges everything by the standards and..." more
Sunday, February 20, 2011 6:42:15 PM
Charles Bayless wrote a blog post titled The infinite variety of human experience:
Charles said, "From Livy, The History of Rome in the preface to Book One The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you..." more
Saturday, February 19, 2011 2:58:14 PM
Charles Bayless wrote a blog post titled A scholastick life has no other tendency than to vitiate the morals and contract the understanding:
Charles said, "The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson No. 180. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7. 1751 Tat' eidwoes isqi, mathn d' 'Epicouron eason Ho' tooe cen"
Friday, February 18, 2011 7:18:12 PM
Charles Bayless wrote a blog post titled The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must:
Charles said, "Quotes from Thudydides in The Peloponnesian War. To hear this history rehearsed, for that there be inserted in it no fables, shall be perhaps not delightful. But he that desires to look into the truth of things done, and which (according to the..." more
Thursday, February 17, 2011 1:34:19 PM
Charles Bayless wrote a blog post titled Absolute and relative outcomes and individual effort:
Charles said, "Reading Sowell's thoughts on justice and "social justice" in The Quest for Cosmic Justice prompts a thought about one of the issues with which I continue to wrestle. I believe in the agency of man and yet have to acknowledge the element of fortune..." more
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 12:32:14 PM
Charles Bayless wrote a blog post titled With all the severe limitations which that implies:
Charles said, "Thomas Sowell, The Quest for Cosmic Justice, page 21. . . . all resonate with the idea that many factors besides personal merit determine our economic and social fates. No doubt this belief is true to a very considerable extent, certainly to a..." more
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 11:51:34 AM
Charles Bayless wrote a blog post titled We must look to events and trends much closer to our own time:
Charles said, "Thomas Sowell, The Quest for Cosmic Justice, pages 16-17. One of the reasons I like Sowell so much is that he constantly challenges assumptions with facts. In the United States, for example, many of the social problems of the contemporary black..." more
Monday, February 14, 2011 10:52:53 AM
Charles Bayless wrote a blog post titled Too often, however, we proceed as if we did not recognize this distinction:
Charles said, "Thomas Sowell, The Quest for Cosmic Justice, page 15. Much of the quest for cosmic justice involves racial, regional, religious, or other categories of people who are to be restored to where they would be but for various disadvantages they suffer..." more
Sunday, February 13, 2011 12:44:51 PM
Charles Bayless wrote a blog post titled Justice or injustice is characteristic of a process:
Charles said, "Thomas Sowell, The Quest for Cosmic Justice, page 8. Cosmic justice is not simply a higher degree of traditional justice, it is a fundamentally different concept. Traditionally, justice or injustice is characteristic of a process. A defendant in a..." more
Saturday, February 12, 2011 12:06:50 PM
Charles Bayless wrote a blog post titled The disadvantages of the disadvantaged:
Charles said, "Thomas Sowell, The Quest for Cosmic Justice, page 6. I have enjoyed almost all the books and columns of Thomas Sowell that I have read. Overarching common sense, married to a burrowing interest in the facts, communicated through an almost..." more
Friday, February 11, 2011 2:14:51 PM
Charles Bayless wrote a blog post titled I don't understand how Nixon won:
Charles said, "I have heard this quote occassionally over the years without a sourcing of it. From James Taranto's column: A famous example from politics is the apocryphal quote attributed to the late Pauline Kael, film critic of The New Yorker: "I don't..." more
Thursday, February 10, 2011 7:16:57 PM
Charles Bayless wrote a blog post titled To vent my spleen against:
Charles said, "Jane Austen, The History of England. Presaging in her youth, many of the academics and pundits of later years. I suppose you know all about the Wars between him & the Duke of York who was of the right side; if you do not, you had better read some..." more
Thursday, February 10, 2011 8:22:57 AM
Charles Bayless wrote a blog post titled Very seldom fail of success:
Charles said, "From Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments. In the middling and inferior stations of life, the road to virtue and that to fortune, to such fortune, at least, as men in such stations can reasonably expect to acquire, are, happily in most cases,..." more
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 7:54:56 AM
Charles Bayless wrote a blog post titled So that there was no man then alive who could remember so severe a winter as this was:
Charles said, "From the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the entry for AD 1046. The residents of the midwest and northeast, pounded as they are by the exceptional winter snow storm, would likely be making a similar entry right about now. And in the same year, after..." more
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 6:13:12 PM
Charles Bayless wrote a blog post titled They cease to be men:
Charles said, "From Selected Essays on Political Economy by Frederic Bastiat. This being understood, let us examine this popular aspiration, which seeks to realize the general welfare by way of general plunder, and let us see what it is worth, whence it comes,..." more
Monday, February 7, 2011 5:32:25 PM
Charles Bayless wrote a blog post titled The second half of your program will destroy the first half:
Charles said, "From Selected Essays on Political Economy by Frederic Bastiat. Here I come into conflict with the most popular prejudices of our day. People not only want the law to be just; they also want it to be philanthropic. They are not satisfied that..." more
Monday, February 7, 2011 5:32:25 PM
Charles Bayless wrote a blog post titled Their desire instead is to manage dissent:
Charles said, "From A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America by Jim Webb. The one connecting dot in all of my experiences has been a passion for history and desire to learn from it. Not the enumeration of monarchs and treaties that so often passes..." more
Sunday, February 6, 2011 4:47:50 PM
Charles Bayless wrote a blog post titled Sic transit gloria mundi:
Charles said, "Epitaph on Two Piping-Bullfinches of Lady Ossory's, Buried under a Rose-Bush in her Garden by Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford (1783, pub. 1798) All flesh is grass, and so are feathers too: Finches must die, as well as I and you. ..." more
Sunday, February 6, 2011 4:47:50 PM
Charles Bayless wrote a blog post titled Always to be a child:
Charles said, "Cicero: De oratore, II Not knowing what happened before one was born is always to be a child. "
Saturday, February 5, 2011 4:13:39 PM
Charles Bayless wrote a blog post titled There is more sea:
Charles said, "Dante Gabriel Rosetti in The House of Life. And though thy soul sail leagues and leagues beyond, - Still, leagues beyond those leagues there is more sea. "
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 11:02:35 AM
Charles Bayless wrote a blog post titled Weather isn't climate in the months which have "r" in them:
Charles said, "From Walter Russell Mead in his essay Mad Meat Making Scientist Proves Climate Doomsayers Wrong. But record cold temperatures and snowfalls so heavy that I have to dodge falling icicles descending abruptly from the ivy-covered halls of Bard..." more