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  Furor Gallico, "Future to Come".

 What is vital and healthy does not necessarily survive. Higher organisms are often conquered by lower ones. Arts as well as men are subject...

 * Leif Weinar, The Deaths of Effective Altruism , at "Wired" * Huaping Lu-Adler, Slavery and Kant's Doctrine of Right (PDF) ...

 Today was the feast of St. Isidore of Seville, Doctor of the Church. From the Etymologiae  ( Book VII , 38-39): So one speaks of the vestig...

 Aftermath by Willa Cather   Canst thou conjure a vanished morn of spring,  Or bid the ashes of the sunset glow  Again to redness? Are we st...

 “I reckon you’ll be shocked,” replied Greywood Usher, “as I know you don’t cotton to the march of science in these matters. I am given a go...

 Introduction Opening Passage: First, in the original Latin: Qui mare, qui terras, qui coelum numine comples, spiritus alme, tuo liceat mih...