THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft

BIRTHDAYS:

1759 Mary Wollstonecraft, English writer, philosopher, and advocate for women’s education whose arguments for rational equality between the sexes challenged prevailing social norms of her era.

1791 Samuel Morse, American inventor of the telegraph and Morse code, also a painter.

1820 Herbert Spencer, British philosopher and sociologist/writer.

1891 Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor whose oeuvre spans symphonies, ballets, operas, and chamber music, characterized by rhythmic vitality, harmonic boldness, and lyrical depth that bridged modernist experimentation and neoclassical clarity. Dance of the Knights from Romeo and Juliet (with Nureyev).


MISCELLANEOUS:

ON THE GRASS, PROBABLY. Archaeologists Found 115,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Where They Shouldn’t Be