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Stirling Moss, Vanwall VW 57 and Mike Hawthorn, Ferrari 246 went to Morocco for the final round of the 1958 Championship, with Moss needing to win and set fastest lap and Hawthorn to finish no lower than third to take the title…
Morocco had recently gained its independence from Spain and used the race to help establish its global identity. The newly crowned King Mohammad V attended 'Ain Diab', a very fast, dangerous road circuit on public roads near Casablanca.
Moss took the lead, with Phil Hill also starting well. Hill waved teammate Hawthorn through to chase Moss with Brooks challenging in the other Vanwall. Moss set a new lap record, Ferrari slowing Hill to allow Hawthorn into second. Moss ran into Wolfgang Seidels' Maserati 250F, damaging the Vanwalls nosecone, fut fortunately not the radiater core.
Tragedy struck on lap 42 when the engine in Stuart Lewis-Evans Vanwall blew, the cars rear wheels locked, careering into a small stand of trees. The vulnerable tail tank ruptured and caught fire, Lewis-Evans jumped out but was disoriented and headed away from fire marshalls who may have been able to minimise the terrible burns from his overalls and despite being flown home to the UK, he died in a specialist hospital six days later.
Moss won the race, and Hawthorn the Drivers Title. The Constructors Championship was won by Vanwall, a fitting reward for Tony Vandervell who had passionately supported the BRM program before setting out on his own, frustrated by Management By Committee…
Hawthorn shortly thereafter announced his retirement from racing, aged 29, and 'dicing' with Rob Walker on the Guildford Bypass not far from his home, crashed fatally in his Mark 2 Jag an horrific end to a tragic season for British Motor Racing.
Vanwall Racing Cars…
Tony Vandervell…
Guy Anthony 'Tony' Vandervell started his independent race program with a series of Ferraris modified by his company and called 'Thinwall Specials', he had become frustrated with the lack of progress of the BRM Project, of which he was a founder shareholder.
The Ferraris raced mainly in British Formula Libre events, the main opposition the BRM V16 which was essentially too late for F1 before the formula changed rendering it obsolete.
Vandervell was restless and wanted to race in the new 2 litre F1 of 1952/3.
In 1954 he started building Vanwalls… the name an acronym of his Acton based 'Thinwall' bearing company and his surname. The chassis was designed by Coopers' Owen Maddock, and built by them.
Vandervell was a Director of Norton and impressed by their very successful 500cc single. The engine was designed by Norton designer Leo Kuzmicki and was essentially 4 Norton single cylinder barrells integrated 'en-bloc' with added water jackets.
This DOHC cylinder head used twin inclined valves in each combustion chamber, and also utilised motor cycle style hairpin valve springs. It was then married to the bottom end of a Rolls Royce 'B40 military engine', the crankcase cast in aluminium rather than the originals iron.
Laystall provided the crank and Bosch the fuel injection system.
The car made its debut at the 1954 International Trophy at Silverstone, the Goodyear disc brakes proving successful but the cars front suspension was unsatisfactory. The engine progressed from 2237cc to 2490cc .The car was raced by Mike Hawthorn and Peter Collins who wrote it off in Spanish GP at Barcelona.
Vandervell ordered four chassis based on the Cooper design which picked up Ferrari suspension and steering, the team by that time having plenty of Ferrari parts!
1955 Season…
The four cars were to be raced in 1955 by Ken Wharton, Harry Schell, Desmond Titterington and Mike Hawthorn. Schell won four minor British events but it was clear a lighter, stiffer and more sophisticated chassis was needed to make the most of the competitive engine.
Vandervells staff modified the basic Cooper frame at which point Colin Chapman was introduced to Vandervell via the Vanwall transport driver, Derek Wootton, to look at the frame. Vandervell was impressed with Chapmans knowledge and track record and signed him on.
Colin Chapmans 1956 Vanwall Design…
A defining moment in Vanwalls' future success was the choice of Colin Chapman, then an up and coming racer/designer/builder of Lotus sports cars. Chapman designed a modern space-frame chassis and engaged aerodynamicist Frank Costin to design the gorgeous, low drag ultra-slippery body.
Chapman used the 1955 double wishbones and coil spring front suspension, Ferrari derived gearbox layout and brakes but laid out new De Dion rear axle geometry using a Watt linkage for lateral location whilst retaining the transverse leaf spring.
The space frame chassis featured round section top and bottom longerons in 1.5 inch diameter. At the front a sheet metal fabrication provided a cross member for anchorages for the coil and wishbone suspension setup. The frame was complex and rigid but weighed only 87.5 pounds.
Whilst the De Dion rear end was retained the suspension geometry was changed to allow much more negative camber at the rear to enhance the loaded outside tyres adhesion. For 1957 the transverse leaf spring was replaced by 'Chapman Struts' a coaxial coil spring and locating link.
The most striking feature of the car was its Costin designed, teardrop shaped body. Painstaking attention was devoted to underbody fairing, the elliptical body section designed to minimise deflection in cross winds and drag.
Flush 'NACA' ducts were used, and the distinctive tall headrest faired a 39 gallon fuel tank, two subsidiary 15 gallon tanks were located low on each side of the scuttle.
Engine development continued under Harry Weslakes' direction and the best of everyting was used throughout; Bosch fuel injection, Goodyear disc brakes, Mahle pistons, Porsche gears, Ferrari designed gearbox cum final drive…Vandervell didn't get hung up on the whole 'only British BRM thing', simply buying the best when he could not readily or cost-effectively build it.
Schell was joined by Maurice Trintignant that season but Moss raced the car at the non-championship Silverstone International Trophy, as Maserati, Moss' team that year had not entered. Moss set fastest time and won the race.
In 1956 the cars showed great speed but poor reliability and ordinary high speed roadholding. For 1957 they needed reliability and drivers capable of fully exploiting the cars performance.
1957 and 1958…
The 'Chapman Struts' were fitted and Fichtel & Sachs dampers, the engines were teased to develop 285BHP at 7300RPM and Moss signed to drive…with Tony Brooks as number 2. Moss tested BRM, Connaught and Vanwall cars at both Silverstone and Oulton Park, on the same days before making his decision about which car to drive in 1957..
The Vanwall finally broke through, winning the British GP at Aintree in the hands of Moss…and Brooks sharing cars. Lewis-Evans, the young British 500cc F3 star, joined the team in Monaco when Moss was ill, the team now had great depth, Moss won in Pescara and Monza, the Vanwalls qualifying 1,2, and 3! ahead of all the Red Cars.
Alcohol fuels were banned for 1958 causing especially big problems for Vanwall and BRM who both used 'big banger' four cylinder engines which needed the cooling effect of the alcohol. As a consequence the engines power dropped from 290BHP on alcohol to 278BHP on 'pump fuel' in 1958.
Changes to the engine involved investigation of cam profiles, three and four valve heads and water injection. Changes to port shapes, valve timing, and metering cams was finally involved. The Ferrari Dino was reckoned to have circa 286BHP but Italian dynos' have always been a bit 'eager'…
Weight saving was investigated but the cars were already light, cast alloy wheels were adopted but often Borrani wires were preferred especially at the front where they gave greater driver 'feel'.
Drivers were the same as 1957, with Moss winning in Holland, Portugal and Morocco, and Brooks in Belgium, Germany and Italy. As stated earlier whilst Moss missed out on the drivers title to Hawthorn by one point, Vanwall won the inaugural Constructors Championship.
End of The Beginning of Dominance of The Green Cars…
For Vandervell it was 'mission accomplished' and whilst Vanwall raced on they did so without the full campaign of previous years. Vandervell took the death of Lewis-Evans very hard and his own health was failing. He announced the teams withdrawal from full-time competition, the team racing four times in the final three years, its swansong the rear engined Intercontinental Formula car competing in May 1961 at Silverstone.
Etcetera Vanwall…
Click on this site for a chassis/year summary of cars built and raced;
Photo and Reference Credits…
The Cahier Archive, Stirling Moss Archive, The GP Library, Walter Wright Illustrations, Louis Klemantaski, The Autocar, James Allington cutaway drawing, Jesse Alexander, Automobile Year 5, Stephen Dalton Collection, Vic Berris, Hall & Hall, Getty Images, JARROTTS.com
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The different faces of the FCC ... on an M&M near you
Are you angry as heck at the prospect of losing spectrum? Or so mad about net neutrality that you want to bite the head off of a member of the Federal Communications Commission?
Or maybe you've always wanted a candy dish brimming with M&Ms bearing the mugs of FCC commissioners. Comcast? Verizon?
Now that's all possible, thanks to Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker. She recently ordered a package of M&Ms stamped with the images of the five commissioners.
"I got the idea from Oprah. I love Oprah," Baker said during a recent visit. "We just wanted to have some fun for the holidays. I'm all about having fun."
The junior Republican member of the nation's communications watchdog agency ordered just one pack for hoots. Cost was about $35 and she'll be using a similiar shot to the blurry one above by PostTech for her Facebook page. Notice the candies are lined up in the same order of FCC members's commission seats (From left: Mignon Clyburn, Michael Copps, Julius Genachowski, Robert McDowell and Baker).
Now tell us, which one would you eat first?
Cecilia Kang
December 21, 2009; 8:00 AM ET
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Dispatch - September 2014
Jeeps News & Rumors. Autho graphs. Industry News
Jeep News & Rumors
The 2018 Wrangler with an aluminum unibody is the rumor.
The 2018 Grand Cherokee will get some redoing.
2016: 75th anniversary of Jeep.
The Compass got a four-star safety rating from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The SRT nameplate is downsizing its offerings, but so far, it seems the Grand Cherokee version is here to stay.
Jeep is sponsoring the UK version of Tough Mudder, that insane obstacle course for crazy thrill-seekers.
South Africa is getting a limited-edition Wrangler: the Conservation Edition. It's been created with the Reserve Protection Agency, which protects endangered wildlife.
Is part of a former Jeep plant in Ohio poised to become a new jail?
In case you couldn't tell, there's a push to globalize the Jeep brand on an epic scale. And with the plans, it could mean plant expansions in the U.S. Probably not expanding with jails.
Industry News
Bridgestone has named Waterloo Elementary in Monroe, Michigan, the winner of its Fuel the Cause contest, which will receive $25,000 to build a new playground.
Meanwhile, Cooper has engineered a Wear Square so that consumers can figure out the wear on their tires. There are five stages, from full square design to an exclamation mark when the tread is at the 1⁄16 of an inch stage (meaning, replace the tire). It's currently available on the CS5 Touring tire.
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"Jeep spirit is something that we believe lives inside everybody. Our job is to reach inside and pull that spirit to the surface."
-- Mike Manley, head of the Jeep brand
Road Rage Cities
AutoVantage irritated a bunch of drivers in various cities to see which ones had the worst road rage. Or, it's possible they simply surveyed people and looked at the data. Either way, the least courteous cities are Houston, Atlanta, Baltimore, Washington DC, and Boston. Most courteous are Portland, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, San Francisco, and Charlotte. Minneapolis and New York City are on the rise for becoming more courteous, while Houston is not setting a fine example.
Heard of this "Jeep"?
Changan Automobile has been around in China since 1862. In 1958, it says it produced the first jeep in China, called Changjiang.
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"Everything around me was twirling, debris, limbs. The Jeep comes off of the ground. I started to spin, and at that moment, I didn't know what to do, but when it came back down enough that I could touch the ground, I sped out of the driveway into the highway."
-- Andy Wallace to WCTI NewsChannel12 out of North Carolina after a tornado picked up his Jeep
There's So Much Happening Here, Nothing Makes Sense
"Jeep Brand Teams Up With Epic Records and USA Basketball for New Summer Campaign Featuring Just-Released Music by Michael Jackson"
Boeing Phantom Badger Ready for Transport
The U.S. Navy has certified that the Boeing Phantom Badger combat support vehicle can now be transported within a V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. The Phantom Badger will be used for recon, search and rescue, direct action, and more. The vehicle that some are calling a Jeep, was developed alongside NASCAR engineers and did significant four-wheeling as part of its R&D. It features 35-inch rubber and a 240hp engine.
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Motorcycle fatalities are decreasing, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association. But, it notes in its Spotlight on Highway Safety report that motorcycle safety hasn't improved in 15 years.
Seems driving in Europe has gotten safer.
Hey, San Francisco -- you have the highest percentage of bike commuters, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Could there be truth to the whispers of a downsize Ram 1500, say, a 1000?
The Ford F-150 sold its 500,000th EcoBoost engine.
GM is building the new Performance and Racing Center for engine design and development. Should be good to go by mid-2015.
The official truck of the NHRA? Chevy.
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Cherokee Nation Chief Chad Smith accepted a $1,500 campaign contribution from disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, The Oklahoma Gazette reports. Smith took the money in 2002, when he was running for re-election. The following year, Cherokee Nation enterprises hired Abramoff and paid his firm about $120,000, according to Senate records. Smith is running again this year. He has faced criticism for supporting a referendum that denied tribal citizenship to the Freedmen, the descendants of African slaves. Get the Story:
Oklahoma Cherokee chief calls Abramoff accusations 'desperate'
(The Oklahoma Gazette 4/11)
Note: In order to read the story, you must click on the story link.
Sovereign Immunity Court Decision:
Vann v. Kempthorne (December 19,
Jim Cason Letter:
Cherokee Nation
Constitution (August 30, 2006)
Cherokee Nation Judicial Appeals Tribunal Decision in Freedmen
v. Cherokee Nation (March 7, 2006)
Relevant Links:
Cherokee Nation - http://www.cherokee.org
Of The Five Civilized Tribes - http://www.freedmen5tribes.com
Conference - http://www.freedmenconference.com
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need to approve constitution (09/11)
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Cherokee Nation to vote on blood quantum change
Cherokee Nation council debates blood
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Partying and me don't go too well. The bother of dressing up, loud music and feeling exhausted the next day are my ideas of hell - I prefer going to restaurants instead (food is my first love).
Having said that, I did manage to go to a party a few weeks ago, and I actually enjoyed getting dressed up. Out came the Barry M dazzle dusts and fake eyelashes - as well as some shameful 'selfies'
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The top executive for Target Corp. started the week Monday trying to assure consumers that his company will figure out who stole personal information of tens of millions of its customers, and he apologized for the massive data breach, which he said has been mended.
"As time goes on, we're going to get to the bottom of this," said Target President and CEO Gregg Steinhafel in a television interview Monday morning on CNBC. "We're not going to rest until we understand what happened and how that happened."
Steinhafel said the breach occurred when hackers installed malware on the Minneapolis-based company's point of sale registers.
Steinhafel declined to outline the changes being made in an effort to protect customers' personal information, citing the ongoing criminal investigation.
Target said hackers stole the personal information of up to 110 million customers, including names, mailing addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses through their credit and debit cards.
Steinhafel said he learned about the data breach in a phone call on the morning of Dec. 15. He added that "my heart sunk" and he has had many "sleepless nights" since his company's troubles began.
The company announced the breach on Dec. 19 and Steinhafel explained it took several days to for the company to reveal it because they first had to make sure its data system was safe, then prepare employees and set up call centers to handle inquiries from the public.
"We've tried to be very transparent and very clear," he said.
He said he's also aware of how Target customers are feeling: "No one screens my e-mail," Steinhafel said. "So I have read every single e-mail that has come to me."
"It has run the gamut of emotions from 'I'm with you Target … and I've had the other side of that equation to where there's been some very poorly chosen words to describe Target and myself," Steinhafel said.
People have been upset and frustrated, he said: "They have every right to be."
In a full-page ad in Monday's Star Tribune, Steinhafel said his company's "top priority is take care of you and helping you feel confident about shopping at Target, and it is our responsibility to protect your information when you shop with us.
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In August and September ASHA hosted two workshops in Melbourne that were a great success!
The workshops were a beginners guide to historic artefact identification, and conservation basics for archaeologists.
Both events were fully booked with 40 attendees, and waiting lists for extra places.
Dr Christine Williamson, Bronwyn Woff and Holly Jones-Amin presented respectively on ceramic artefacts, glass bottle basics and in-field conservation first aid.
We would like to thank Heritage Victoria and their staff for the use of the Artefact Centre and the archaeological collections as well as their assistance in helping with the events.
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On 26 September 2018, ASHA held a workshop on Artefact Identification and Analysis as part of the 2018 ASHA/AIMA Conference in Parramatta.
There was a good turnout of members, students and non-members with 25 attending each session.
Specialists talked on the artefact categories that are often, if not always, found during excavations. These categories also have the dubious reputation of being the hardest to catalogue because of their huge range of functions, fabrics, decor, manufacturing techniques etc.
This workshop also provided an ideal opportunity to showcase one of Australia's earliest potters, Thomas Ball, so we can recognise, and therefore verify the presence of Ball's work on sites in and around Sydney.
All presenters arrived laden with interesting artefacts that helped demonstrate the identification technique with a hands-on approach.
Jeanne Harris held two sessions and talked on the topics of ceramics and glass.
Robyn Stocks talked about two categories close to her heart, miscellaneous and building materials.
Mary Casey and Bernadette McCall prepared and presented a session on identifying Thomas Ball pottery.
Each presenter has provided ASHA with their guides on their chosen topics and these resources are now available to ASHA members.
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The workshop was extremely interesting and enjoyable and there are plans for more workshops heading your way. Watch this space.
Members may be interested in a range of archaeology-related blogs available to access, that can be found no the following link: http://pastthinking.com/links/
There have been no submissions for Artefact of the Month recieved this month (email email@example.com if you would like to submit for the June edition!) however I've come across a great blog from our North American friends: The American Artifacts Blog!
This blog "is a media outlet featuring artifact-related digital content from U.S. and Canadian archaeologists. [You can use] the blog to search, explore
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Regarding fencing wire:
About the most wires can usually tell you is that it is post-1788. And you knew that anyway! The earliest Australian record for wire in rural fences I now know of is 1840. A few years earlier than what I published several years ago. (Yes, even I engage in the "my site is older than yours" race.) Galvanised wire was advertised in mid-1850s. Barbed wire may give a more precise date, depending on the type. In general, barbed wire is post mid-1870s, but specific types were patented later, and may help you put brackets on a date of occupation.
Iron and steel fence posts, and steel droppers may also help because most (but certainly not all) were patented. But you must be aware of later re-use of older scavenged components.
Send me some images of your wire / post / dropper, and I may be able to help you. (This sort of advice and help is really expensive: a coffee when I next see you.)
BTW: all of my fence-related papers including my 2010 PhD are on Dropbox as freebies. Help yourselves: HERE
Copies of the diagrams, images, etc. are available from me, please don't just screen-dump them.
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I guess that most of you are aware of Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/texts), but if you aren't, then you should be.
Internet Archive is a treasure trove of FREE downloadable scanned books on everything from A to Z and beyond. These include hundreds of early mechanical, technological and agricultural encyclopaedias and books that will certainly help you better understand how things were done in 19th and early 20th centuries. If you want to know about just about any form of technology, this is the place to start. Any historical archaeologist worth her salt should have at least some of the zillion books from Internet Archive in her digital bookshelf. However, be warned: Internet Archive can be seriously addictive!
There are also hundreds of early Australian books, and if you are looking for some historical account that is only held in the Rare Books section of some library, then you should always start with Internet Archive. It is truly surprising what you will find.
Many of the titles were scanned by Google, and some appear to require payment to download them. If it looks like this is going to happen, you can bypass it by clicking on the "All files HTTPS" or similar button. This will get you to a page with options of downloading in a range of formats including PDF.
The search function is a bit clunky, and the way the items are described is painful to say the least. You can't distinguish between the same item from different libraries.
Here is one my favourite sources, Holtzapffel. A series of five volumes from mid-19th C. with extensive discussion of materials, and how things were done. The titles are not truly indicative of the encyclopaedic contents, there is considerably more than you might think from the titles. The URLs are to the PDFs (mostly 40 - 70 MB), there are other formats available. Other historical archaeologists will have their own lists of useful titles.
Holtzapffel, C. (1852). Turning and mechanical manipulation. Volume I. Materials; their differences, choice, and preparation; various modes of working them, generally without cutting tools. London, Holtzapffel & Co.
Holtzapffel, C. (1856). Turning and mechanical manipulation. Intended as a work of general reference and practical instruction on the lathe, and the various mechanical pursuits followed by amateurs. Volume II: The principles of construction, action, and application, of cutting tools used by hand; and also of machines derived from the hand tools. London, Holtzapffel & Co.
Holtzapffel, C. (1850). Turning and mechanical manipulation. Intended as a work of general reference and practical instruction on the lathe, and the various mechanical pursuits followed by amateurs. Volume III: Abrasive and miscellaneous processes, which cannot be accomplished with cutting tools. London, Holtzapffel & Co.
Holtzapffel, C. (1881). Turning and mechanical manipulation. Intended as a work of general reference and practical instruction on the lathe, and the various mechanical pursuits followed by amateurs. Volume IV: The principles and practice of hand or simple turning. London, Holtzapffel & Co.
Holtzapffel, J. J. (1884). Turning and mechanical manipulation. Intended as a work of general reference and practical instruction on the lathe, and the various mechanical pursuits followed by amateurs. Volume V: The principles and practice of ornamental or complex turning. London, Holtzapffel & Co.
(Unfortunately this is the only version available and it is a really poor scan, and the PDF is 1.2 GB. Yes, GB, not MB)
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In 2016 Extent Heritage were engaged by the Department of Parliamentary Services, Parliament of Victoria to undertaken excavations within the grounds of Victoria's Parliament House. This location includes the site of the former St Peter's Diocesan Grammar School (H7822-2339), which was constructed in 1849. The excavations yielded a collection of 10122 artefacts, among which were 18 pieces of at least two glass target balls. Unfortunately, these pieces were recovered from unstratified contexts that include materials deposited with nightsoil that was dumped across much of inner Melbourne in the late 19th century and therefore cannot be definitively tied to on-site activities. However, in and of themselves, they are interesting objects.
PLATE 1: Some of the Parliament House target ball fragments (Supplied: Christine Williamson Heritage Consultants).
The target balls are made of cobalt-blue glass, are 65mm in diameter and have a grid pattern on the surface. The items are round, with the exception of a protruding opening (Plate 1 above). They have been created by blowing glass into a 2-piece mould with the rough lip on the opening formed when the glass was broken away from the blowpipe. The raised pattern on the surface of the balls was designed to prevent shot from ricocheting off the smooth ball (Kerr nd). Unlike the complete items illustrated in Plate 2 below, the Parliament House artefacts do not have a maker's mark. The style of the Parliament House balls is the same as 'an extremely rare ball' that was made in Australia (targetballs.com, Plate 3 below). I have not been able to find any information on Australian glass target ball manufacturers, other than Frederick Bolton Hughes of the South Australian Glass Bottle Company. He made glass target balls between 1896 and 1913, but his items are embossed with his initials ( pssatrap.org).
PLATE 2: A collection of glass target balls (peachridgeglass.com).
PLATE 3: Australian-made glass target ball (targetballs.com).
Glass target balls, in a range of bright colours that would be easily visible as they were launched into the sky, were manufactured from about the 1860s until the end of the 19th century, with their main period of use between 1875 and 1885 (antiquebottles.com; glassbottle marks.com; peachridgeglass.com). At the height of their popularity, the Bohemian Glass Works in New York City produced 1.2 million glass target balls in a six-month period, each of which sold for just over a penny (Finch ndb).
PLATE 4: Target ball trap (peachridgeglass.com)
PLATE 5: Target ball trap (targetballs.com)
The 'invention' of glass target ball shooting is credited to Charles Portlock of Boston, who organised the first competitive glass target shoots in in 1867 (Kerr nd). The glass balls were hailed by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals as an invention that 'supersedes the necessity of inflicting pain and suffering to pigeons hitherto used by marksmen as a medium for obtaining accuracy of aim' (Henry Berg letter dated 7/8/1876 in Finch nda) and one patent trap was named 'The Pigeon's Friend'. The early traps were of limited popularity as they simply threw the ball straight up into the air. However, in 1877 a trap was patented that cast the balls in a 60-foot-long arc and other patents soon followed (Kerr nd, plates 4 and 5 above). By the late 19th century glass target balls were rapidly replaced with clay targets that were considered safer as they did not lead to large amounts of broken glass falling from the sky and scattering across the ground.
However, glass target balls remained popular in shooting competitions, exhibitions, circuses and Wild West shows. The 'Ira Paines' Filled Ball', popularised by shooter Ira Paines, was filled with feathers and powder so that when the ball broke apart it resembled a bird being shot (Kerr nd). Annie Oakley is said to have filled her glass balls with streamers that burst from the item when it broke apart (Meyer 2012). The balls were also used as a solid, curved surface for darning socks on and for teething babies (Finch ndb) and were sometimes repurposed as Christmas decorations (glassbottlemarks.com).
Christine Williamson Heritage Consultants
Finch, R. nda Who's on First? Portlock, Paine, Moreson? www.targetballs.com
Finch, R. ndb. What are Target Balls? www.targetballs.com
Kerr, A. nd. For Fun, Sure as Shooting – Target Balls Hit the Mark. www.traphof.org
Meyer, F. 2012. Target Glass, Glass Made to Be Broken www.peachridgeglass.com
A special edition of the International Journal of Historical Archaeology was published in March 2018, focusing on 'Marvellous Melbourne'. Volume 22, Issue 1 was edited by Susan Lawrence, Peter Davies and Jeremy Smith and can be found here: https://link.springer.com/journal/10761/22/1/page/1. The special issue contains 11 articles, as follows:
Introduction: The Archaeology of "Marvellous Melbourne" – Susan Lawrence, Peter Davies, Jeremy Smith
Bottle Merchants at A'Beckett Street, Melbourne (1875-1914): New Evidence for the Light Industrial Trade of Bottle Washing – Adrienne Ellis, Bronwyn Woff
Salvage Archaeology in Melbourne's CBD: Reflections upon Documentary Sources and the Role of Prefabricated Buildings in Construction of the "Instant City" of Gold-Rush-Era Melbourne – Geoff Hewitt, Natalie Paynter, Meg Goulding, Sharon Lane, Jodi Turnbull, Bronwyn Woff
Reconstructing Landscape: Archaeological Investigations of the Royal Exhibition Buildings Western Forecourt, Melbourne – Janine Major, Charlotte Smith, Richard Mackay
The City Revealed: Reflections on 25 Years of Archaeology in Melbourne. Lessons from the Past and Future Challenges – Jeremy Smith
Langlands Iron Foundry, Flinders Street, Melbourne - Sarah Myers, Sarah Mirams, Tom Mallett
A Golden Opportunity: Mayor Smith and Melbourne's Emergence as a Global City - Sarah Hayes
Melbourne: The Archaeology of a World City - Susan Lawrence, Peter Davies
Working-Class Consumer Behavior in "Marvellous Melbourne" and Buenos Aires, The "Paris of South America" – Pamela Ricardi
The Other Side of the Coin: Subsurface Deposits at the Former Royal Melbourne Mint – Ian Travers
Insights of Afro-Latin American Archaeology – Kathryn E Sampeck
The next ASHA reading group is being hosted by Casey and Lowe and will be held on 22nd March. This is a semi-regular (quarterly) opportunity to catch-up with other historical archaeologists and discuss themes of interest.
Topic: Historical Artefacts
Facilitator: Robyn Stocks, Senior Artefact Specialist, Casey and Lowe
Location: Casey and Lowe Offices, 51 Reuss Street, LEICHHARDT NSW 2040
Time: 6pm, Thursday 22nd March 2017
Primary Readings
Davies, P. 2005 'Writing Slates and Schooling in Victoria', Australasian Historical Archaeology 23:63-69.
Gojak, D. & I. Stuart 1999 'The Potential for the Archaeological Study of Clay, Tobacco Pipes from Australian Sites', Australasian Historical Archaeology 17:38-49.
Klippel, W.E. & G.F. Schroedl 1999 'African slave craftsmen and single-hole bone discs from Brimstone Hill, St Kitts, West Indies', Post-Medieval Archaeology 33:22–232.
Secondary Readings
Varman, R.V.J. 1993 Bricks and Nails: Building Materials as Criteria for Dating in Sydney and Environs from 1788, A Documentary Survey and Assessment of Dating Potential, Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Sydney. Available online at https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/1205
Contact firstname.lastname@example.com if you are finding it difficult to find the readings.
The event is free and open to anyone who is interested, however, RSVPs are essential (to firstname.lastname@example.com), so please get in touch if you would like to come!
Excavations at the Wesley Church precinct were carried out by Dr. Vincent Clark and Associates in 2017, a site which is located between Lonsdale and Little Lonsdale streets in the Melbourne CBD. The residences at Jones Lane were brick houses with bluestone footings, ranging in size from two to four rooms.
This month's 'Artefact of the Month' was found in one of the residences along Jones Lane, which ran between Lonsdale and Little Lonsdale streets. This masonic stickpin, which is a decorative pin used to secure men's cravats or neck ties. Stickpins generally date from the early 19th century, and though the date for this one is still being pinned down, it is dated to broadly between the late 19th and early 20th century.
This stick pin is 76mm in length and is made from copper alloy, delicately shaped in twisted ropes around a clear oval piece of glass. The glass has a thin veneer of shell over the top, cut into the Masonic symbol of a square and compass. The motif is interesting as our background research on the site shows a number of different businesses, but none related to stone masons. The analysis of the artefacts from the site is still in progress, so our knowledge of the site at this stage is still preliminary, but we hope that we can research the inhabitants of this residence and identify any members of the Masonic Lodge.
For more information see: http://vincentclark.com.au/2017/05/jones-lane-historical-archaeology/
In 1872 Hiram Codd patented his famous aerated water bottle with its unique internal marble stopper. Once opened the bottle's ingeniously designed neck kept the marble from obstructing the flow of liquid. But have you ever wondered how a Codd bottle was opened in the first place?
Figure 1 Wooden Codd Bottle Opener (Courtesy: https://www.quora.com/There-was-a-harsh-drink-in-India-with-a-ball-in-the-glass-bottle-that-they-called-Soda-What-is-it)
Most people simple used their finger to push the marble into the bottle, but this necessitated clean hands and often resulted in sore fingers. Fortunately, Codd also developed a bottle opener especially designed to open his bottles. Copied and modified by others, bottle openers for Codd bottles were primarily made from wood, such as boxwood or sycamore (Figure 1) and were more rarely made of glass (Figure 2).
Figure 2 Glass Codd Bottle Opener (Courtesy E. Jeanne Harris)
This type of opener is often referred to as a "codswallop" - a term used to mean nonsense. Wordsmiths suggest that the term is derived from 'cod's wallop', meaning 'bad beer', but since the first documented use of codswallop was 1959, it is more probable that it is a term adopted by 20th -century bottle collectors (Chapman, 1992, p.56).
Chapman, Raymond 1992 "One's vocabulary considerably increased", English Today. Volume 32 October 1992, Cambridge Press, p 56.


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Part 23: Offer from Delhi to hold conference which JR helped to organise - Association of Scientific Workers, Burhop also involved. Had to get financial help for meeting, Onassis offer was refused. Invitations were accepted by 50% of scientists but by end of 56 there was hostile mood (Suez crisis and uprising in Hungary), people did not want to come and meeting was cancelled. By 1957 people got more worried by tests. Atomic Scientists Association set up committee on radiation danger - JR tells story of woman who painted luminous watches. Committee published a statement on dangers. The press picked it up - involvement of Lord Charwell - opposition to public statement on dangers - end of committee. JR explains argument and misunderstanding about 'threshold theory'. JR now talks about his involvement with Poland, the contact with his brother and his brother's story during the war. JR's trip to Poland with Cockcroft, meeting his brother and bringing him and his wife over to England.
Nobel Peace Prize-winner and nuclear physicist Joseph Rotblat in conversation about his life and work. A key figure in the development of the atomic bomb, he left the US government's Manhattan Project once it became apparent that Nazi Germany did not have the capability to build a bomb of its own.
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Liberty and Equality1863
The idea that man is the result of a higher organization of matter and that there is a gradual progression from the mineral to the animal kingdom is true in one sense. But to suppose that man, as we see him, is superior to the brute or any other living creature is not the case. Man is matter; so are the brutes and all living creatures, and to say that one kind of matter has any superiority over any other matter is false. You might as well say that the soil of California is more intelligent than the soil of Maine. There is no wisdom in the soil of the globe or the soil of man. Man is the soil, and wisdom is the husbandman.
Now there is a gradual change from the mineral to the animal matter, for all are acted upon by wisdom; and as matter is always going through this change, wisdom uses it to develop a truth. As the earth is developed by man's wisdom for its own happiness, so the matter that contains animal life is also developed. All minerals are sown in dross (or error); so truth, being in matter - wisdom, through itself, in the form of science, develops the mind (or matter) of man. Not that the truth is a part of the man (or matter), but like the dross, is with it. Gold is not dross, nor matter wisdom. So when we say we "purify" the gold, it is not strictly true - but we get rid of the dross, and leave the gold pure from the dross. So man is the dross, and as we purify the wisdom, we destroy the natural man - and that leaves the true gold - or man of science.
Now the difference of opinions is this. In the development of matter, error puts intelligence in matter. Wisdom does not. So one reasons from the basis of matter; the other from science. Now every man contains these two characters: one, matter (or opinions); the other science. So science and opinions run along together like gold and dross, or any metal and its dross.
So wisdom, in every development, has its dross - and the dross of wisdom reasons like the dross of every pure matter. These two principles are known in various characters as freedom and liberty. Freedom is the development of matter, not of wisdom; but the soil (or error) (or slavery) is to stifle development. But as error is the character to be destroyed, it forges its own weapons to destroy itself.
Therefore all progression begins in the element called "matter" (or man). To the natural man, its own act is not known, and it fights itself like an insane person, thinking he is saving his friend. I will relate one instance to show how error destroys itself. I was called to see a person that was sick. This person tried to hang herself. She took a rope and ran for the woods, and just as she made the rope fast around the limb of a tree, her husband caught her. Now she told me that she thought her husband was going to hang himself, and she was trying to prevent him. Here you see, through her own error, she was trying to destroy herself. So error, in every instance, is the first aggressor of its own destruction.
All slavery is black; the error is black; the truth is white and pure. Truth is not matter, but wisdom. Error is darkness. Darkness is not matter, but a state of matter. Matter, like soil, may be black or white. The color is one thing, and the idea is another.
Now as I have said in some of my articles, a nation is like an individual; so it seems that our country is a fair representative of the development of wisdom. Now everyone knows the controversy going on in regard to slavery, yet no one has as yet put the idea of freedom on the basis of wisdom - but on the basis of equality. Now equality is not freedom nor slavery, but a mere matter of taste.
To put wisdom on an equality with error is to admit an opinion as good or as wise as a scientific truth. The question is not whether the black man is as good as the white or whether the white man is better than the black. With error, that is the question - and this false idea makes the trouble. Wisdom knows no color; error knows nothing but color - and as error has made war with itself, it has bound itself.
Now as the United States is the wisdom of the error, it has bound itself and made war with its own house. So slavery is the result of a family quarrel that wisdom has no part in. The children of Uncle Sam are fighting about the soil that gave them life. The soil that has been cultivated is considered the most intelligent, so as intelligence is called "white," the white earth (or matter) is the most intelligent. So the dark earth is only fit for the lower element of brutes.
Now these elements are warring against each other to see which shall rule over the other. Out of the two comes another element that contends that one error is right and the other wrong; that is, the black soil is just as good as the white, while the white error contends the white is the most intelligent. Now wisdom stands outside and speaks in this wise. There is no wisdom in either white or black - for both are of the earth.
Now destroy the idea that man (or matter) contains any wisdom; then you will make all men equal, like the brutes. Now the brutes have their kind, and the birds theirs, and so the Indians. Every race has its identity and are equal to another race, but wisdom is not any part of their matter. Every race of man is like a civilization, just as far as they have progressed from barbarism. The African and Anglo-Saxon are mediums for wisdom to work through.
So as you cultivate the soil, it becomes more fruitful, and as the white soil is more fruitful, it is not the soil, but the wisdom that takes the praise; but the soil, being the error - it puts wisdom in itself. Now the black (or wild) matter, not being cultivated, is held by the white error as a sort of soil for the brutal element; but as error never can keep still, it will always make war with itself when it cannot injure wisdom.
Now these elements have their identity in individuals, so I shall bring them before you as persons reasoning about the institution of slavery. I will introduce the two extreme ideas. Neither reason from wisdom, but both reason from opinions that are the result of their ignorance of the true issue. Both put intelligence in matter. Here is one reason. He believes that God is the father of all mankind; that he made no distinction of color. The black and white are equal, and to enslave the black is a sin, so he goes for liberty and equality. This is the preaching of one set of men.
Now as mind is matter, reason and opinions are also matter. And our senses, being attached to matter (or opinions) - a reformation starts up, and the mind, like the religious element, is excited, and persons become fanatical and embrace false ideas, and their ideas excite other men, and like the false ideas of religion, break up families and make a great deal of trouble to get rid of an error that is not embraced in any idea they advocate.
Then this has its opposite. There are other elements (or men) that hold that the white man is superior by nature and that God made the black with a lower intellect - or a link between the brutes and the white man. Their intellect is inferior, and their natural place is slavery. This is the other extreme.
Now out of this error comes a conservative element. This element can't see anything but the destruction of the country; therefore they go for peace - that is, to heal up the wound full of proud flesh that will at any time break out again. This element in man is all based in matter and contains no wisdom. Wisdom stands outside of all this and addresses that matter (or mind) that has been purified by the error, till it is capable of becoming a medium for a higher wisdom than man.
I will assume this mediumship and speak as I am acted upon. I see the first person - full of sympathy for the poor, depressed slave. Their sympathy is guided by their opinions, like the person who sees the drunkard in the gutter, and feeling his trouble, wishes to convince the world that he feels as though he (the drunkard) was a man, not a beast. So instead of taking him into a house and leaving him till he gets sober, he commences talking to him and helping the drunkard out of the gutter, or entering the shop and lecturing to the dissipated, telling them it is wrong to get drunk, etc. Or he feels a sympathy for such. So in order to show that he is on a level with them, instead of putting them on a level with him, he sits down and drinks and takes part with them. This has an effect to lower him in the estimation of those whom he wishes to influence, and it makes the drunkard more dissipated.
Now I will show how I stand in regard to the black. Opinions of the world is the enemy to the black. Now these opinions are matter and are liable to change by a power (or wisdom). Now if wisdom mingles with opinions, it loses its identity and is swallowed up by opinions. So to be respected by opinions and to have your wisdom respected, keep yourself from the error of the world. Then opinions will listen to your wisdom. Instead of letting your body (or opinions) mingle with error (or the slave), keep your wisdom uppermost, and address yourself to the wisdom of the wise. Remember that what we see is matter - black or white.
Wisdom, being out of matter, is not seen - and if our senses are in wisdom, then we are governed by wisdom. But if our errors are in matter, we are governed by matter and are judged by our own works. Now to let your wisdom mingle with the lower animal (or lower element) is like casting pearls before swine. Address the higher element of conservatism. That is the purer part of the other two. Then you will receive the reward of your labor. The extremes will listen, and conservatism will be silent, and the element of error will melt with the fire of truth. The shackles of the slave will be dissolved, and the error of slavery will be laid low, and truth will tear up the roots of superstition. And the blacks will stand as an independent race - like the Irish or Germans - with all their rights as American citizens.
Then the superstition against slavery will die, and men and women will be left calm and reposed and look upon the dead evil as a thing that once was, but now is not. Then as men and women have their peculiar taste for equality, those that have a taste for the blacks may find someone that will sympathize with them. So the mingling of the colors is not the mingling of wisdom, but of opinions. The mingling of wisdom, being outside of matter - it has no part in this wedding. Not that one person is as good as another is not true; if it was, then there could be no improvement. We misunderstand the idea. We mix two opposite ideas together when we say one man is as good as another. That depends on the man we speak of. Paul did not believe that one man was as good as another - and yet they are just as good, as far as flesh and blood go.
And so one scientific man is as good as another scientific man. The difference is not in the color, but in the science. Science and ignorance are not on a level, but error has made a difference in itself. It is at war with its own, and science has nothing to do with it. Now every person is composed of the two, and the scientific sets the error at war - so progression is reformation. All religion is revolution.
The truth is not seen, but the error is. The error gets into an excitement, like two rogues - and it is an old saying that when rogues fall out, honest men get their due. The scientific man is the honest one, while the Christian is the rogue. When I say Christian, I mean all society that is based on opinions. Opinions are the mortar (or medium) to excite; so as all have opinions, the leaders of all sects (or developments) act against the democracy (or masses), and the excitement becomes hot and sharp. Now the slavery question - like political or religious excitement - springs up, and men and women go into it with all the zeal they are capable of. The true issue is not fairly stated.
The enemies of freedom misrepresent the friends of freedom, and the friends of freedom, in their zeal, lose sight of the object they wish to obtain. Wisdom is not known, but there is a quarrel. So after the fight is over, the object (or progression) obtains the victory. Then the wind of the storm abates, and reason takes its stand. The laurels are gathered up, and the dead are buried. And those that are wounded in battle go around as objects of the effect of an excitement by which they are the losers; and the slave no better.
It might be said, if there were none to excite the people to freedom, there would be nothing done. This is true. Offenses must come - but woe to the one that suffers that is capable of feeling their suffering. It would have been better if he never had been born (or got interested). For when the object is obtained - like a reformation - there are some that are honest but excited, who see nothing but the suffering of the slave; that say and do what they would not do in their more sober senses.
Now you might say if all were like me, there never would be a slave made free. I go for the perfect freedom of the slave to all the rights that the law allows me, or that the law has to do with me. The law does not compel me to associate with any man - black or white; neither does it say I shall not. This is my own right. To have every person free is to let the slave free, like the whites, and turn them into the great field of liberty - like all of God's race - and let them mingle, according to their taste, without any religious excitement; the same as the French or Germans or Irish or any human beings. Then every person will find their level. If I am inclined to respect one person over another, it must be from some taste of my own, but I want no excitement about it. Then every person will mind their own affairs and will be likely to mingle in society where they feel the most at home.
But in political or religious excitements, there is no certainty of a man's position. Excitement (or opinions) take control of wisdom, and his opinion leads his wisdom into trouble that he never gets rid of. There are four classes of persons who are affected in this rebellion. One set wants to have their own way, and their way is to compel the ignorant and all others to abandon their opposition to slavery and turn around and mingle with the blacks on a platform of equality. These are few - and if there was no slavery today, the whites and blacks, of their own accord, would seek their own level and be as independent of each other as ever they were in any community where slavery does not exist.
The excess of excitement is disease that freedom will cure. It will leave the blacks independent; and also the whites, the same. Then there is another class that wishes to have their way. This is a political party. They have no principles, but a desire for party. They have no sympathy for black or white. They would as soon enslave the whites as the blacks, if they had the power, and the whites stood in their way.
Then there is another class that wishes to see slavery abolished, because it is used for political purposes. And although their prejudice is not so strong in favor of freedom for the slave, freedom is the best way of keeping the slave power out of power.
Now there are a few - and I am one of this class - that take this view of slavery: I put black and white slavery all on the same platform. Both are opposed to science. Science looks at slavery as an evil that must be destroyed. Now as every party - but the party that goes for slavery - is a combination of truth and error, the slave party is of that class of mind that has not been worked upon by the wisdom of science. They are of that brutal matter that the light has never penetrated.
Now as the light is lit in men's minds, the minds become excited - and the war is in each individual person. Now if their sympathy is with the slave, they are liable to be excited beyond a healthy state. To such, freedom to the slave is heaven, and they take the same grounds with the world. If they are deceived into a religious belief, they have a heaven like a world of liberty, and they use all the means to convert the sinner to be saved (or to get his liberty) from the sinners of this world. So they make war with everything and every opinion that interferes with man's salvation. So their enthusiasm is the same in both; their motive is good, but it is guided by error.
Freedom is a prize, and those who do not understand what it is would not know it if they had it. It is not freedom to a horse to turn him out of the barn in winter and tell him to shirk for himself. So it is with all kinds of slavery. To say to a man that is bound by the priests, "You are a slave,"and make him leave the church without enlightening him is as wrong as to hold him in slavery.
So it is with disease. To tell the sick man that is kept in slavery by his doctor to break loose and be free, without teaching him wisdom and how to take care of himself, is wrong. So with African slavery. To mingle with the slave and get him mad with his master, without the ideas of liberty is as wrong as the other system. Now the true way to bring liberty to the oppressed is to appeal to the highest tribunal - and that is the people. The slaves have no voice in the matter - white or black.
Now there have been men and women that think the best way to get rid of slavery is to mingle with the slave, but I do not. The voice of the people is the medium, but there are persons that are like balloons that are full of gas. They rise in the atmosphere long before the great balloon of liberty ascends. These small ones that are filled from the great reservoir go up and burst in the air and keep the people in commotion, looking for the ascension of the great balloon. The question of black and white will be a question of self - not a party question, but an individual idea - and this will regulate itself.
So I make war with slavery as a very bad and dangerous institution, opposed to the principles of progression and science. I do not go to liberate a disease or free a slave, and let the cause remain. Destroy the cause, and the effect will cease. So put down the rebellion at all hazards, and if any of the institution remains, tie it about so that it can never get its head above ground. Let every state come back free from the accursed evil - or formed so that it will die a natural death. Destroy the party, so that no man will ever come up before the people and say anything in favor of the institution. Then slavery is dead. But to mingle on equal ground is to admit to the disease that, "You exist, and I pity you and will try every kind of wisdom to cure you."
I say nothing to the disease. The slave is the matter diseased. Now to catch the disease is to mingle with the matter. Stand aloof, and destroy the cause. The whites have as much belief in slavery as the disease (or slave). Now talk to the belief (or whites). Mingle with them, and destroy their belief in slavery - and then you cure the disease. But to mingle with the slave (or black), you catch the disease, and you become more offensive than the black disease. So shake off the disease, and then attack the cause. This was Jesus' mission, and he says, "For this cause came I into the world, to lead those that were sitting in darkness into the light; and those that sit in darkness (or slavery) will see the light spring up. "
So the only way to kill slavery effectively is by public opinion, through the voice of the people, by their votes. There are so many demagogues that want office that they will advocate anything, whether they understand it or not. And it would not be strange if the very party at the North will be the party that will go in for the amalgamation of the blacks and whites, as soon as they find their days are numbered. But liberty will be always silently at work to bring about the design that science will destroy every false theory, every superstitious breeze - and will sail over the whole continent of America with the flag of the Union and liberty forever.
Now the political gas is made from the enemies of liberty who have set fire to the combustibles of their own institution. This creates the gas that is in their own constitutions and is now rising and has caught fire by the fire of liberty. It will blow up their institution and destroy their laws. It will burn their fences and lay waste their fields, and their great men and small men will lament and run from their enemy, for the day of their trouble draweth nigh.
Now it is the idea that is to be destroyed, not the color. Therefore to mingle with the black (or advocate) - this is not to change the idea, but to change the idea is to change the constitution of the slave. When I make war with the priests or doctors, I do not attack their character, but their platform. Neither do I make the people disbelieve in medicine and acknowledge disease. I strike at disease first - that is, the institution.
So with religion. I make war with the priest, not with the meetings, nor with the worship. I go to the cause. I do not make war with slavery (or disease), but with the institution (or principle). The principle of religion leads to slavery and disease and death. So to destroy disease and slavery is to destroy the cause.
Now to talk with the slave is to talk to disease, but to talk to the intelligence of the free is to change the mind, and this destroys the principle of slavery. To do this is the work of time. But sometimes the devil makes war in its own kingdom. So when a house becomes divided against itself, it cannot stand. Slavery has been divided against itself, and its destruction is sure. So all that the people of the free states have to do is to take the advantage of their own quarrel, and put down the rebellion, and the rebellion will destroy itself; for its own fire is slavery, and it will burn till it destroys itself - but it cannot destroy the Union. Therefore, to become excited and undertake to mix colors is not the question at all. That would be like destroying all the medicines and leaving the people diseased in mind. Liberating the slave is not the destruction of the idea. The people must be educated up to the standard of liberty.


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Higher self
Higher self is a term associated with multiple belief systems, but its basic premise describes an eternal, omnipotent, conscious, and intelligent being, who is one's real self. Blavatsky formally defined the higher self as "Atma the inseparable ray of the Universe and one self. It is the God above, more than within, us". Each and every individual has a Higher self.[1]
The Higher Self is generally regarded as a form of being only to be recognized in a union with a divine source. In recent years the New Age faith has encouraged the idea of the Higher Self in contemporary culture, though the notion of the Higher Self has been interpreted throughout numerous historical spiritual faiths. Some denominations believe that the higher self is a part of an individual's metaphysical identity, while others teach that the higher self is essentially our tie to the heavens. Similar to the notion of the soul, the higher self can be defined by many different sects, while also being a topic of interest in the scientific and philosophical fields.
Religious views[edit]
Christianity: In the Christian interpretation, all beings contain a fragment of the Holy Spirit, which ties them to their Higher Self. The concept of the Holy Spirit is widely taught by various Christian sects, but the idea of the individual higher consciousness is discussed less frequently. Christian theology adheres that the Higher Self is what connects one to God, and thus one must honor and keep one's Higher Self pure by following the ethical guidelines outlined in the scriptures.[2] Jesus said, "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak" (Matthew 26:41); a central tenet of Christianity is that the body is still under the bondage of sin and is therefore imperfect, unlike the Higher Self, which remains untainted.
Buddhism: In Buddhism, the Nirvana Sutra describes the notion of Higher self.
Islam: In Sufism and some esoteric Shia sects (Batiniyya), the Higher Self has an important role, which is connected with notion of al-Insān al-Kāmil, the six organs, Al-Nafsul Mud'ma'inah and Fana'.
Hinduism: In Hinduism, the higher self is one and the same with the Jiva or individual self. With this perspective, the Hindu faith generally teaches that the higher self, or Atman is not an object possessed by an individual, rather the self is the subject which perceives. In his book, The Higher Self, Deepak Chopra utilizes the views of the Hindi denomination to support his claims concerning the divine force that is acquired with the awareness of the self. Hinduism teaches that through the examination of self-knowledge, or "atma jnana," one can attain salvation by comprehending the true self.[3]
New Age: Most New Age literature defines the Higher self as an extension of the self to a godlike state. This Higher Self is essentially an extension of the worldly self. With this perspective, New Age text teaches that in exercising your relationship with the higher self, you will gain the ability to manifest your desired future before you. In other words, the self creates its own reality when in union with the Higher Self.[4]
Higher self meditation and channeling[edit]
In numerous reports concerning the Higher Self, the practice of meditation or channeling to contact the Higher Self is highly encouraged. Most of this ideology agrees with the concept that with mindful awareness of the higher self, peace, salvation, or enlightenment may be procured. This is due to the idea that the Higher Self contains an advanced amount of insight into man's most taxing questions, such as the purpose of existence or death, etc. Through spiritual exposure, a person is thought to make a conscious connection with their higher self or other higher beings. In this state, the meditator may tap into this higher intelligence in order to develop a more enlightened perspective on world matters.
See also[edit]
- ^ The Key to Theosophy, H.P. Blavatsky, 1889, p175. ISBN 0-8356-0427-6
- ^ Holcombe, Alfred D., and Suzanne M. Holcombe. "Biblically-Derived Concept of Mankind's Higher-Self-Lower Self Nature." Journal of Religion & Psychical Research 28.1 (2005): 20-25. EBSCOhost. Web. 10 Sept. 2012.
- ^ Chopra, D. (2001). The Higher Self. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
- ^ Hanegraaff, Woutner J. "New Age Spiritualities as Secular Religion: A Historian's Perspective." Social Compass 46.2 (1999): 145-60. Scp.sagepub. Web. 10 Sept. 2012.


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