“What is the human purpose in society? It is to exchange one good for another good more desired. Putting it on a personal basis, it is a matter of benefiting yourself by getting something you desire from another person who, at the same time, benefits himself by getting something that he desires from you. The object of such contacts is the peaceful exchange of benefits, mutual aid, co-operation – for each person’s gain. The incalculable sum of all these meetings is human society, which is simply all the individual human actions that express the brotherhood of man.”

― Henry Grady Weaver, The Mainspring of Human Progress

1614 Philipp Buchner, German composer. Sonata VIII from Plectrum Musicum, Op. 4

1711 William Boyce, English organist/composer. Trumpet Voluntary 1, and Voluntary I, D Major, The King shall rejoice (Music at the Coronation of HM King Charles III)

1862 O. Henry, American writer known primarily for his short stories, though he also wrote poetry and non-fiction.

1877 James Jeans, English physicist, mathematician and astronomer.

1982 Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Human Rights Activist and Politician.

MISCELLANY:

REMINDER. Never Again

HARSH BUT FAIR. 9/11: A Memorial to FBI Failure

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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

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