“Property, not conscience, is the basis of liberty. For the defence of conscience need not arise. Property is always exposed to interference. It is the constant object of policy.”

― Lord Acton

Birthdays:

1511 Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian architect and sculptor.

1677 Antonio Maria Bononcini, Italian cellist and composer. Godo ma come non sò, and Sonata per Camera. Cantabile.

1716 Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter.

1740 Karel van Poucke, a Bruges classicist sculptor.

MISCELLANY:

SOMEONE YOU SHOULD KNOW: The Heroic Jimmy Lai

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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

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