“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?”

― Frédéric Bastiat

Birthdays:

1592 Tobias Michael, German composer and cantor of the Thomasschule in Leipzig. Fürchte Dich nicht

1792 William Austin Burt, American inventor, legislator, surveyor, and millwright.

1831 James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish mathematician and scientist responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation.

1854 Charles Algernon Parsons, Anglo-Irish engineer and inventor of the compound steam engine.

1865 W. B. Yeats, Irish poet, dramatist, writer.

1893 Dorothy L. Sayers, English novelist.

MISCELLANY:

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

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