Cicero—True Law
DAILY DABBLE IN THE CLASSICS WITH STEVE FARRELL
We live in a time where revolutionary forces are attempting to convince mankind that there are no...
Cicero—Is Freedom the Right to Exploit Law In Order to Destroy It?
DAILY DABBLE IN THE CLASSICS, CICERO
I tell you that freedom does not mean the freedom to exploit law in order to destroy it! It is...
In Search of Meaning—C.S. Lewis
DAILY DABBLE IN THE CLASSICS, C.S. LEWIS
“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no...
Calvin: Do Not Abate Your Speed as You Approach Your Goal
DAILY DABBLE IN THE CLASSICS, JOHN CALVIN
Do not abate your speed, because you approach the goal, ... By too much delay the harvest-time will...
Martin Luther: Here I Stand
Here I stand; I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen! Martin Luther
Liberty and Responsibility are Inseparable
Daily Dabble in the Classics, F.A. Hayek
Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also...
The First of the Three Spirits
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
Stave 2 - The First of the Three Spirits
When Scrooge awoke, it was so dark, that looking out of...
A Christmas Carol, Stave 1, Marley’s Ghost
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
Stave 1 - Marley's Ghost
Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register...
Outwitted, by Edwin Markham
AMERICANIST: INSPIRATIONAL POETRY
He drew a circle that shut me out.
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win:
We drew...
Adam Smith: Free Private Enterprise Vs. The Folly of Human Laws
FREE ENTERPRISE ZONE: FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
1776
The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security...
The World of Universals: Logical Universals – Predicables
JONATHAN DOLHENTY, PH.D.
Logical Universals: Predicables
The logical universal expresses the nature common to many, precisely as it is applicable to many. Our intellect considers the...
The Ethics of Enough
by Mortimer J. Adler, Ph.D.
Who has not said or heard someone else say "Enough is enough"? The statement is a tautology and, as such,...
Four Problems with Physician-Assisted Suicide
RYAN T. ANDERSON, PH.D., HERITAGE FOUNDATION
The Hippocratic Oath proclaims: “I will keep from harm and injustice. I will neither give a deadly drug...
John Locke: Philosopher of Freedom and Natural Rights
JONATHAN DOLHENTY, PH.D.
It is an undisputed fact of history that the gems of the American Declaration of Independence are contained in the writings of...
Longfellow: Courtship of Miles Standish, Part I
DAILY DABBLE IN THE CLASSICS, HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
The Courtship of Miles Standish
I. Miles Standish
IN the Old Colony days, in Plymouth the land of...
Aquinas: On Just War
DAILY DABBLE IN THE CLASSICS, ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the...
Plato: Extreme Liberty and the Road to Tyranny
DAILY DABBLE IN THE CLASSICS, PLATO
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most...
Heaven Lies About Us In Our Infancy—Wordsworth
DAILY DABBLE IN THE CLASSICS, WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Intimations of Immortality
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life's...
Cicero: One Law for All
DAILY DABBLE IN THE CLASSICS, CICERO
In the last years of the Roman Republic, Marcus Tullius Cicero, penned his dialogue De Legibus (On the Laws)....
Bastiat: Law's Preexistence, Definition, and Jurisdiction
Daily Dabble in the Classics, Frédéric Bastiat
It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of...
Emerson—The Man with the Hoe
American Thought
Emerson’s essay on “Farming”—first published in Society and Solitude—was initially an oration given to the Middlesex Agricultural Society during the Cattle-Show on September...
The Rule of Law v. The Rule of Men—Aristotle
DABBLING IN THE CLASSICS, ARISTOTLE
Therefore he who bids the law rule may be deemed to bid God and Reason alone rule, but he who...
Xenophon—Œconomick: IV
Western Thought
Xenophon—a student of Socrates—writes the first work on the study of economics.
But I do not pretend that it can be learnt by...
Xenophon—Œconomick: III
Western Thought
Xenophon—a student of Socrates—writes the first work on the study of economics.
I cannot exempt myself from the Calumnies of many of my Countrymen:...
Iraq and the Bloody Price of Lies
BY SELWYN DUKE
Western civilization lied and people died.
It lied, that is, to itself.
I am referring to Iraq, but not to the hapless George...
Xenophon—Œconomick: II
Western Thought
Xenophon—a student of Socrates—writes the first work on the study of economics.
To have an Eye over those, whose Business lies within Doors; and...
Xenophon—Œconomick: I
Western Thought
Xenophon—a student of Socrates—writes the first work on the study of economics.
We agreed in the first Place, said Socrates, that Oeconomy is the...
Jim Bludso, of the Prairie Queen
Jim Bludso,
Of the Prairie Belle.
(Pike County Ballads.)
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WALL, no! I can’t tell whar he lives,
Because he don’t live, you see:
Leastways, he’s got out of...
A Fable: The Ass and His Master
The ASS and His OLD MASTER.
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UPON a Change of Government in any State, the poorer Sort change only the Name of their Master. The...
Light Shining out of Darkness
Light Shining Out of Darkness.
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GOD moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the...