THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”When an individual or a party is wronged in the United States, to whom can he apply for redress? If to public opinion, public opinion constitutes the majority; if to the legislature, it represents the majority, and implicitly obeys its injunctions; if to the executive power, it is appointed by the majority, and remains a passive tool in its hands; the public troops consist of the majority under arms; the jury is the majority invested with the right of hearing judicial cases; and in certain States even the judges are elected by the majority. However iniquitous or absurd the evil of which you complain may be, you must submit to it as well as you can.
The authority of a king is purely physical, and it controls the actions of the subject without subduing his private will; but the majority possesses a power which is physical and moral at the same time; it acts upon the will as well as upon the actions of men, and it represses not only all contest, but all controversy. I know no country in which there is so little true independence of mind and freedom of discussion as in America.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville

BIRTHDAYS:

1556 Sethus Calvisius, German music theorist, composer, chronologer, astronomer, and teacher of the late Renaissance. Praeter rerum seriem, and Unser Leben währet siebzig Jahr, and Freut Euch und jubiliert

1815 Ernest Meissonier, French painter and sculptor

1836 Léo Delibes, French romantic composer. Lakmé – Duo des fleurs (Flower Duet)

1860 Goscombe John, Welsh sculptor

MISCELLANY:

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

Yes, the following is on the website for the Bulgarian Association for Pathology (BPAP). As near as I can tell, the Canadian website was taken down.

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

RELATED. Nuremberg Code