THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”It is the common error of Socialists to overlook the natural indolence of mankind; their tendency to be passive, to be the slaves of habit, to persist indefinitely in a course once chosen. Let them once attain any state of existence which they consider tolerable, and the danger to be apprehended is that they will thenceforth stagnate; will not exert themselves to improve, and by letting their faculties rust, will lose even the energy required to preserve them from deterioration. Competition may not be the best conceivable stimulus, but it is at present a necessary one, and no one can foresee the time when it will not be indispensable to progress.”

― John Stuart Mill

BIRTHDAYS:

1564 Christopher Marlowe, English poet and dramatist (Dr Faustus)

1587 Stefano Landi, Italian opera composer. Passacaglia della vita, and “Amarilli”

1677 Nicola Fago, Italian baroque composer. “Quid hic statis pastores”

1725 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French inventor who designed and built 1st automobile

1802 Victor Hugo, French Romantic writer and politician.

1808 Honoré Daumier, French caricaturist painter, and sculptor

1829 Levi Strauss, German-born American businessman who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans.

1831 Filippo Marchetti, Italian opera composer. “Fascination”

1866 Herbert Henry Dow, American chemical industrialist who founded the American multinational conglomerate Dow Chemical.

1918 Theodore Sturgeon, American sci-fi author

MISCELLANY:

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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

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