August 12, 2024

THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“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

BIRTHDAYS:

1626 Giovanni Legrenzi, Venetian Baroque organist and composer, born in Clusone, Republic of Venice. Sonata à 2 op. 8 n. 4 L’Obizza, and Salmo Credidi

1644 Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Bohemian-Austrian violinist and composer, baptized in Wartenberg, Kingdom of Bohemia. Passacaglia, and Sonate Nr.1 „Maria Verkündigung“, and Toccatta for viola da gamba

1696 Maurice Greene, English composer. Voluntary in A minor

1774 Robert Southey, English writer (“Goldilocks and the Three Bears”), Poet Laureate (1813-43) and biographer.

1778 Francis Horner, Scottish political economist and politician.

1849 Abbott Handerson Thayer, American painter and naturalist.

1854 Alfred Gilbert, English sculptor and goldsmith (Eros statue in Piccadilly)

1881 Cecil B. DeMille, American filmmaker and actor.

1887 Erwin Schrödinger, Nobel Prize–winning Austrian and naturalized Irish physicist who developed fundamental results in quantum theory.

1925 George Wetherill, American scientist.