THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind-in-the-mass through some pet formula of their own. The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means.”

— Henry Grady Weaver, The Mainspring of Human Progress

BIRTHDAYS:

1036 Su Tung-p’o, Chinese poet, essayist, painter and calligrapher.

1676 Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, French organist and composer. Loin de la jeune Héro, and Suite du premier ton (16:58)

1846 Ambrose Swasey, American mechanical engineer and inventor of telescopes.

1944 Mitchell Feigenbaum, American mathematical physicist who pioneered chaos theory.

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