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Saturday, July 07, 2018

Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

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Introduction Opening Passage: Since, as noted in the introduction, I deliberately read the work in two different translations, and the di...
Friday, July 06, 2018

Evening Note for Friday, July 6

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Thought for the Evening: Parental Rights and the Right to Parental Protection There are a number of different accounts of parental rights....
Thursday, July 05, 2018

A Quick Trip to Scotland, Part VI

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From Inverness we went down to Loch Ness. The sun was still bright. Loch Ness, which fills Glen More, the Great Glen of Scotland, is one ...
Wednesday, July 04, 2018

Civil Liberty and Virtue

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It is a truth of no little importance to us in our present situation, not only that the manners of a people are of consequence to the liabil...
Tuesday, July 03, 2018

Witherspoon on Hume's Moral Theory

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Tucked away in one of his theological works, An Essay on Justification , John Witherspoon (best known as one of the signers of the Declarati...

Voyages Extraordinaires #16: Les Indes noires

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To Mr. F. R. Starr, Engineer, 30 Canongate, Edinburgh. If Mr. James Starr will come to-morrow to the Aberfoyle coal-mines, Dochart pit, Ya...
Monday, July 02, 2018

A Quick Trip to Scotland, Part V

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We headed out by train for Inverness. The Firth of Forth from the Forth Rail Bridge: Somewhere in Cairngorms National Park, I believe: ...
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