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I refrain from using the word basic as I believe this is unjustified (though I have used it). What I would say it it's clean and functional and considering the area - pretty dam amazingly well priced. Beaulieu-sur-mer's dock is close and you can enjoy great food just a 5 minute walk away, and lovely coffee shops. In terms of transport, the train runs pretty close too, around 5 minute walk away from the Hotel (taking you to places like Monoco, Nice or Cannes).
All in all, if you just want a very clean hotel, with a bed and nothing too grandiose I'd select here.
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One of the early images in "The Dark Half" is as terrifying as anything Stephen King has ever conceived. Thad Beaumont, the film's hero, is a gifted boy who wants to be a writer. He suffers headaches and seizures. Some sort of brain tumor is feared. Doctors find something on the X-rays, and open his skull, and while they are probing the surface of the delicate tissue, a large eye opens and stares at them.
The eye, as King's readers will know, belongs to the unformed embryo of Thad's twin. Such cases are not unknown, the surgeons assure each other (surgeons are unflappable in these cases).
One twin will sometimes absorb the other at an early stage of pregnancy, but sometimes a few bits are left over, like the extra eyeball buried in the brain. The offending material is cut out by the surgeons, and buried. Thad grows up to become a professor and writer.
But the books he writes under his own name are respectable and academic. His best-selling thrillers are written under the name of "George Stark." And when he decides to retire the pseudonym, his troubles start again. Thad (Timothy Hutton) is a pleasant, humdrum sort of a guy, but "Stark" creates images of unspeakable horror. And those images somehow come from the evil twin, who calls himself George Stark, and does not want to stop writing. Soon a series of violent crimes begins, and all the clues point to Thad Beaumont. Only he knows that Stark is the real killer.
Now this is a terrific premise for a thriller, and director George Romero ("The Night of the Living Dead") sets it up with skill and style. Thad's home life with his loyal wife (Amy Madigan) goes increasingly out of control as Stark makes his existence impossible.
And although a conscientious lawman (Michael Rooker) would like to believe Thad's incredible story, he simply cannot. Rooker (seen on the other side of the law in "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer") has fingerprints and other evidence that prove Thad is a killer, and the story of the ghostly evil twin is too hard to imagine.
Unfortunately, it is also too hard for King and Romero to imagine, and the film's biggest disappointment is that it doesn't develop its preternatural opening theme. Once George Stark is introduced, there's a little explanatory mumbo-jumbo from a wise old humanist (Julie Harris), and then "The Dark Half" simply turns into a violent action picture.
I'd like to know more about the evil twin. Is he a figment of Thad's imagination? Some kind of psychic projection? Did he grow like a tree out of the bits of tissue buried in the old family plot? Is he an imposter? Can he read Thad's mind? Did he have a childhood? Is that the original eye? There are three or four inconclusive, half-baked suggestions dropped here and there in the movie, as if the authors themselves were sorting out the possibilities, but by the last half-hour this movie is essentially no different than if the eyeball had never blinked, the twin had never been discussed, and Thad was simply being persecuted by a routine mad slasher.
Too bad. That means the end essentially comes down to a hackneyed fight to the finish, when a resolution of the weird premise would have been much more interesting. Another disappointment is that so little is done with the George Stark character, who is also played by Timothy Hutton, in a dual role that allows him to definitively shed his nice-guy image. Isn't there something wonderfully macabre (or darkly funny, anyway) about a creature who starts life as an unfinished embryo, ends up as a mad slasher, and would really rather be writing pulp fiction?
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If you have a Fake ID I presume that is what makes weekends "fun" at bars, otherwise, students hang out with each other in their dorms
What is Financial Aid at this school? Most people barely get anything rewarded, including myself.
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Non-Greeks don't really like Greeks so much because they are clique-y and seem to be pretentious.
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Everyone has their own unique sense of style and it is interesting to meet people you normally wouldn't all in one place.
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Always interesting atmosphere with a plethora of diverse and interesting people.
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Pretty diverse amount of restaurants to choose from, not always so fast and cheap AND healthy.
The professors are not the best within this department. Wish it was easier to transfer within the school.
There are many majors to choose from.
I can easily switch from one major to the next within my school.
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There is a variety of choices to choose from.
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It is in New York City, a very exciting place to be.
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Greek life is not a big part of campus life.
Sports are not a big part of campus life.
There are many subway stops near the school with many different trains to choose from, which are convenient for commuters.
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The classes can be challenging, but it is worth it in the end.
The reputation and educators are the main reasons why I wanted to study at NYU. I haven't been disappointed.
Hard to find but worth the experience. It would help if the students knew of more accessible ways.
I'm very happy. I love my program- I have freedom to focus on what I want. I want to travel and help people using political tools and accessing their governments.
They usually help and answer most questions.
Internet is great, the library lets you borrow one if you don't have one but the library gets very busy.
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New York City is one of the best cities in the world. We have everyone beat on transportation too. What else can one ask for?
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You can't really go to the best places under 21. Not that I am encouraging drinking, it's simply that the best places happen to have a minimum age to enter, which is 21.
Student busses to all dorms are provided.
Little student involvement but facilities are superb.
There's always computers available for everyone who needs them
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Tuesday, July 19, 2016EAW Adaptive System Covers CMA Music FestivalPSW Staff 07/19/16 09:17 AM,The Chevrolet Cruze Park Stage, one of the top three venues at the recent CMA Music Festival in Nashville, delivered audio to thousands of fans with the help of an Eastern Acoustic Works Adaptive Performance sound reinforcement system provided by Sound Image, Nashville. Located between the Country Music Hall of Fame, Bridgestone Arena and Schermerhorn Symphony Center, the Cruze Park Stage hosted a variety of up-and-coming country stars including Andy Griggs, Halfway to Hazard, The Sheepdogs, Lauren Alaina and Brett… View this post
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Adele Live Tour Utilizes beyerdynamic TG MM1w Wireless Measurement MicrophonePSW Staff 07/18/16 12:33 PM,Adele is currently playing to sold-out arenas on a world tour. The elaborate sound needs require a constant focus on the singer and her voice. Acoustic effects are paired with consummate style during the entirety of the show. To meet the high expectations of audio perfection, the engineering team relies on the new beyerdynamic TG MM1w interchangeable measurement microphone capsule to accurately test audio levels with the benefits of its ease of use. The performance utilizes sections of both stage… View this post
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JBL By Harman Supports Live Broadcast Of iHeartRadio Music AwardsPSW Staff 07/18/16 10:07 AM,When the Forum recently hosted the 2016 iHeartRadio Music Awards, VerTec and VTX line arrays from JBL by Harman Professional Solutions were chosen to provide the house sound for the event, which was broadcast live on TBS, TNT and TRUTV. The third annual awards ceremony recognized the most popular artists and music over the past year, as determined by the network's quarter-billion monthly listeners in the U.S. on the iHeartRadio digital music platform. Event integrator ATK Audiotek built the PA… View this post
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Nashville's Ensworth School Outfitted With FBTPSW Staff 07/18/16 08:14 AM,John Horrell, president of Durrell Sports, recently installed FBT loudspeakers in the school auditorium for Music City's Ensworth School. With a student body that includes children of Nashville's resident musicians, high-quality sound is consistently needed to support school shows as well as the many performances given by parents – professional musicians who enjoy the opportunity to raise money for the school. "Because of Ensworth's notoriety in Nashville, many musicians in the area seek out the school for their kids," said… View this post
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Friday, July 15, 2016NEXO And Yamaha Deployed For Dalai Lama In CaliforniaPSW Staff 07/15/16 08:52 AM,On June 18 and 19, Premiere Production (Garden Grove, California) had the privilege of providing audio production at the Dieu Ngu Temple in Westminster (CA) to welcome the 14th Dalai Lama for two days of teachings with attendance reaching 10,000. For the special event, Premiere Production brought in a NEXO GEO S12 line array, PS loudspeakers, a Yamaha CL5 Digital Audio Console, and two Rio 3224-D input/output boxes (one used as a stage box, the other for press feeds). "Since… View this post
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Kenny Chesney Out With MIDAS For 2016 Spread the Love TourPSW Staff 07/15/16 06:43 AM,Kenny Chesney is taking not just one, but two MIDAS PRO X digital mixing consoles on the road as part of his 2016 Spread the Love Tour, including 14 major stadiums. Morris, the production company for the tour, is providing the consoles to support the band's entire monitor system, and also utilizing four DL431 mic splitters and two DL451 stage boxes. "Morris has been a longtime supporter of MIDAS, so when they introduced the PRO X, upgrading seven of our… View this post
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Thursday, July 14, 2016Maluma Chooses DPA Microphones For Live PerformancesPSW Staff 07/14/16 10:17 AM,When front of house engineer Lucas Pinzón was looking for the ideal drum mic set for Colombian urban music performer Maluma's kits, he selected DPA Microphones. His collection now includes d:vote 4099 instrument microphones, the d:dicate 2011C recording microphone and the d:facto handheld microphone, with both the 4018V and the new 4018VL capsules. Pinzón had previous experience with the d:vote range of mics in a jazz festival setting and decided to use them for this project because "the d:vote 4099B… View this post
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Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals On Tour With DiGiCoPSW Staff 07/14/16 07:31 AM,When you make a change to a touring audio rig that is seen by some as a compromise but will mean less space and weight on the truck—and it actually improves the overall audio quality—that's a good day for an audio engineer. That is exactly what James Shaw has found on his current Rat Sound-reinforced tour with Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals connecting a pair of DiGiCo consoles while sharing mic pres and using the manufacturer's Gain Tracking feature.… View this post
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016Working In ConcertKevin Young 07/13/16 10:56 AM,For a three-piece band, Chvrches (pronounced as "churches") makes a lot of noise. Rather than depend primarily on playback to present its heavily layered synthpop-style music, the Glasgow, Scotland-based band – Lauren Mayberry (lead vocals, synthesizers, samplers), Iain Cook (synths, guitar, bass, vocals) and Martin Doherty (synths, samplers, vocals) – focuses on generating as much of it live as possible. In fact, both on stage and in studio, Chvrches is all about that "live" feel, which loosely defined is the… View this post
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Country Inn & Suites By Carlson Miami Kendall
Hotel Guest Rating: 8.2/10
11750 Mills Drive
Miami, FL 33183
Hotel Freebies Available*
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Welcome to the Country Inn & Suites By Carlson Miami Kendall
The Country Inn & Suites by Carlson Miami Kendall offers free continental breakfast and a perch that's next to the Town & Country Mall and near highways.
Hotel Features
Convenience is the aim of the four-floor, non-smoking hotel's 97 guestrooms, all of which offer kitchenettes with microwaves and mini-fridges. Check your e-mail all you want, since Wi-Fi is free of charge. Rooms also feature premium cable TV with video games, plus free weekday newspapers. Wake up each morning and dig into a free continental breakfast featuring bread and bagels, coffee, tea, juice and milk, fresh fruit, make-your-own waffles, three types of cold cereal and yogurt. Fun in the Miami sun is the order of the day in the hotel's spacious outdoor pool. The kid in all of us likes free cookies and the hotel offers them with coffee in the lobby each day. For fans of the written word, the hotel offers a book-lending library. A fitness center and coin-operated laundry are also on-site. Parking is free.
Hotel Location
Located in suburban Kendall, the hotel is adjacent to the Town & Country Mall between the Florida 821 Turnpike and Highway 94. You'll find several restaurants within walking distance. Coconut Grove is nine miles from the hotel, and Miracle Mile shopping and Coral Gables are 11 miles away. Downtown Miami is 13 miles. Vibrant South Beach is 16 miles from the hotel.
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Country charm meets with a free continental breakfast and on-site fitness center at the Country Inn & Suites by Carlson Miami Kendall.
Country Inn & Suites By Carlson Miami Kendall Amenities
- 24-hour front desk
- Accessible facilities
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- Accessible room
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- Cable television
- CNN available
- Coin operated laundry
- Complimentary in-room coffee or tea
- Complimentary newspaper delivered to room
- Elevators
- ESPN available
- Exercise gym
- Express check-out
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- Fitness center on-site
- Free high speed internet connection
- Free parking
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- HBO available
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- Heated pool
- High speed internet access for laptop in public areas
- Hot breakfast
- Housekeeping - daily
- Ice machine
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- Multilingual staff
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- Outdoor pool
- Pay per view movies on TV
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- Recreational vehicle parking
- Safe deposit box
- Security
- Spa
- Transportation services - local area
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- Wakeup service
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- Wireless internet connection in public areas
Hotel Information
Guests are required to show a photo identification and credit card upon check-in. Please note that all Special Requests are subject to availability and additional charges may apply.
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The swimming pool is warm, it is attractive for me, especially in winter time!
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Rated 5 out of 5 by LisaJ21 Great Experience! Great Location! Our experience was great! The location was great! T.J. greeted us and made our check-in process effortless! He really made us feel welcomed! When we checked-out, it was wonderful to be able to leave our bags and car while we continued touring the city for the day. The W City Center is definitely a hotel that I will recommend to visitors to the city. July 22, 2016
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Rated 5 out of 5 by AndreJ Thumbs Up I came to town to hang out with friends at the Taste of Chicago and this W was perfect. The proximity to EVERYTHING downtown including the festival itself was super convenient. When I checked-in, Adam at the front desk set the tone immediately with a very down-to-earth greeting and professionalism that you expect from a W hotel. I would definitely stay here again. July 12, 2016
Rated 4 out of 5 by lovefood09 Greeted by a friendly face! I must say I was skeptical about this hotel because of the reviews. But my stay here was decent! I came to visit from Michigan to attend the Taste of Chicago 8th-10th. I've been for many years but this my first time booking a room downtown. During check-in, I was greeted by a young gentleman named Adam F. who worked at the first desk. The interaction with him made me secure about my decision to stay. I asked many questions about the incidental fees, how it will be changed and etc. Just so anyone know the fee is $200 per night but you will get that back after you check out (currently waiting on mine). I received an upgrade and my room was amazing. No funny smell and no bugs (believe me I checked). The bar was nice and I highly recommend the "Very Berry" drink. It's so delicious!!!! Check-out was super easy and stress free because I knew what to expect from my previous questions I asked during check-in. Surprisingly, Adam F. helped me check-out and I thanked him plenty times for helping me out. He was so awesome and he represented the company extremely well! So far my experience was great. The only CON about the hotel is in the final folio, I had a minibar charge and I didn't eat or drink anything from that (I know better). I noticed that have happened with other people from their reviews so that is something the hotel should work on. So as of now, I'm waiting for their accounting department to make that correction. So my advice is to ask many, many questions to get a clear understanding of fees and charges. Other than my minibar charge, I had an amazing time. July 11, 2016
Rated 3 out of 5 by MMAW No follow through Stayed for 3 nights. Each day something negative happened. 1. Second night needed a bed sheet service around 8pm which was confirmed by house keeping, but after getting in later that night, upon return bed was still without clean sheets. I called to ask someone to bring some up, but unfortunately they only brought up a flat sheet so we made due with no fitted sheet or duvet cover for the night. 2. The next night the room was actually service but the old sheets were left beside the bed and not actually removed from the room 3. The third night was my birthday. Upon check-in the staff noticed and asked me what type of wine I liked because they wanted to send up a bottle complimentary bottle , which I thought was very nice. Of course, as the last night came and went nothing was ever delivered. 4. Worst view i've had with a platinum upgrade and as they checked me, they told me how lucky I was to get upgraded to king size bed. The king size is what I reserved and paid for in the first place. 5. Overall not a great experience and worst so far from a W hotel. July 6, 2016
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George Washington's Solemn Warning Against Party Strife and Plea for Unity
From George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)
A solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation, and to recommend to your frequent review, some sentiments which are the result of much reflection, of no inconsiderable observation, and which appear to me all-important to the permanency of your felicity as a people. These will be offered to you with the more freedom, as you can only see in them the disinterested warnings of a parting friend, who can possibly have no personal motive to bias his counsel. Nor can I forget, as an encouragement to it, your indulgent reception of my sentiments on a former and not dissimilar occasion….
I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.
Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another….
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed,
it is of infinite moment
that you should properly estimate
the immense value of your national union
to your collective and individual happiness;
that you should cherish a cordial, habitual,
and immovable attachment to it;
accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it
as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity;
watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety;
discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion
that it can in any event be abandoned;
and indignantly frowning upon
the first dawning of every attempt
to alienate any portion of our country from the rest,
or to enfeeble the sacred ties
which now link together the various parts.
~ * ~
Written by John Uebersax
February 17, 2016 at 5:33 am
Posted in Americana, Culture, History, Reform in government, Renewing America
Tagged with George Washington, partisanship, party strife, solidarity, united we stand, unity
A Beautiful Mind: Addison's Religious Essays
EADERS of this blog may download a free copy of my new book, a collection of religious and metaphysical essays by Joseph Addison which appeared in the The Spectator in 1711 and 1712. These are certain to delight and edify. Addison is well known as one of the most skilled prose stylists in the English language; but few today are aware of the sublime quality of his religious essays.
Addison's influence on both the English and American minds is considerable, yet largely unacknowledged today.
Download the ebook in pdf format here.
Written by John Uebersax
September 30, 2015 at 1:16 am
Posted in Christian, History, Humanism, Humanities, Humor, Idealism, Liberal Arts, Literature, Moral philosophy, Philosophy, Reading, religion, Scholarship, Self-culture, spirituality
Tagged with English Literature, immortality, Joseph Addison, Metaphysics, Spectator
The Emersonian 'Universal Mind' and Its Vital Importance
IT SEEMS I'm always trying to get people to read Emerson. Why? Because I'm convinced his writings contain solutions to many of today's urgent social problems.
Perhaps Emerson's most important contribution is a concept that he refers to throughout his works, calling various names, but most often Universal Mind. This term invites a number of unintended meanings, tending to obscure Emerson's important message.
Universal Mind may at first glance seem a vague, new-agey reference to some cosmic super-intelligence, but that's not what Emerson means.. The concept is more commonplace, down-to-earth and practical. It could perhaps better be called the Human Nature, Universal Human Nature, or Man. For now, though, I'll stick with Emerson's term, but put it in italics instead of capital letters to demystify it. What, then, does Emerson mean by the universal mind of humanity?
It is, basically, all human beings share a common repertoire of mental abilities. Just as insects or lizards of a particular species share a common natural endowment of behavioral instincts, so all humans have a common natural set of mental skills, aptitudes, and concepts. (In fact, sometimes uses the word Instinct instead of universal mind.)
For example, consider a basic axiom of plane geometry: that two parallel lines never intersect. Once this was explained to you in high school, at which point you said, "Oh, I see that. It's common sense." This is the Emersonian universal mind in action. Every other geometry student has the same response. The ability to 'see' this is or 'get it' part of our common mental ability as human beings.
And the same can be said of hundreds, thousands, or more particular elements of human knowledge. These cover many different domains, including basic principles of mathematics and logic, artistic and aesthetic judgments (all human beings admire a beautiful sunset, all see the Taj Mahal as sublime and beautiful), moral principles (what is just or fair?), and religion (e.g., that God exists and deserves our thanks and praise.)
By the universal mind, then, Emerson merely means that plain fact that all or virtually all members of the human race share a vast repertoire of common mental abilities, concepts, judgments, and so on. This is not wild metaphysical speculation. It is an empirically obvious fact. Without this implied assumption of universal mind, for example, criminal laws and courts would be pointless. The mere fact that we hold people accountable for criminal misdeeds implies a shared set of assumptions about right and wrong, accountability for ones actions, etc.
Now it is true that one may, if one wants, elaborate the principle of a universal human mind and add all sorts of metaphysical speculations. Some do. They see this universal mind as deriving from the principle of all men being made in God's image and likeness. These are important considerations, but they are, in a sense, secondary ones. More important is that is, it is important that all people — theists and atheists, metaphysicians and empiricists alike — can agree on the existence of the universal human character. Said another way, it is vital that we not let disagreements over metaphysics obscure or distract us from this more important consensus that there is a universal man or universal mind.
Why? Because this concept — something we all assume implicitly — has been insufficiently examined and developed at a collective level. It needs to become a topic of public discourse and scientific study, because its implications are enormous. We've only just begun this work as a species, as evidenced by the fact that we as yet haven't even agreed even on a term! It's always been with us, but only lately have be become fully aware of it. This realization is a milestone in the evolution of human consciousness and society.
Maybe I'll write a followup that discusses the specific ways in which this concept, fully developed, may advantageously affect our current social conditions. For now I'll simply list a few relevant categories where it applies:
Human Dignity. Each person has vast potential and therefore vast dignity. Each carries, as it were, the wisdom and the sum of potential scientific, artistic, moral, and religious capabilities of the entire species. Any person has the innate hardware, and with just a little training could learn to discern the technical and aesthetic difference between a Botticelli painting from a Raphael, a Rembrandt from a Rubens. Each human being is sensitive to the difference between a Mozart piano sonata and one by Beethoven. And so in Science. Any person could understand the Theory of Relativity suitably explained. Or differential equations. Or the physics of black holes.
Consider this thought experiment. If the human race made itself extinct, but aliens rescued one survivor, that one person could be taught, almost by reading alone, to recover the sum of all scientific, moral, and artistic insights of the species! The entirety of our collective abilities would live on in one person. And, more, that would be true regardless of which person were the survivor. So much is the vast ability and dignity of each human being.
Education. It exceeds what we currently know to assert that all possible concepts already exist fully developed, though latent, in each person. But we can assert that all human beings are hard-wired in certain ways to enable to form these concepts when supplied with suitable data. In either case, the implication is that education does not instill knowledge, so much as elicits the pre-existing aptitudes. Further, in keeping with the preceding point, the universal mind means that no person is limited in their ability to learn. Each person is a Genius. We should do our utmost to make this potentiality a fact for as many as possible. Education should be lifelong, not something relegated to the first 18 years of life.
Arts are not the peculiar luxury of the elite upper class. Shakespeare, Mozart, and Raphael are the common heritage of all. We need to take much more seriously the basic human right to have each ones divine artistic nature flower.
Economics. Today economics has become the main frame of reference for conceptualizing all human progress. We must rethink this, and give greater allowance for seeing the flourishing of the universal man as our goal. Nobody can be happy with vast potentials unfulfilled. It is not the way of nature. We must get it clear in our thinking, individually and collectively, that the business of society is to empower the individual.
Social discourse. All solutions to social ills already exist latent in Man's heart. The phrase 'common dreams' is more than a euphemism. We do have common ideals, great ones. Our social discourse should aim for mutual insight and self-discovery. Answers are within: one's within oneself; but also, because of the universal mind, ones within the other as well. Instead of argument and debate we should aim for dialectic: a joint uncovering of ideals and guiding principles and raising of consciousness.
Government. To much of modern political philosophy assumes the principle of nanny government. People are wiser than governments. We should insist that the first priority of government is to make itself unnecessary. Liberate the universal man — the ultimate moral force on earth — and see how much things improve without government intervention!
Foreign policy. All men are at the core alike. All respond to the same appeals to Reason and Morals. All have equal worth and dignity. All are designed for cooperation, friendship, and love. Any foreign policy which denies these realities does not conform with nature and cannot succeed.
As noted, Emerson's discussion of the universal mind is found scattered throughout his works. Emerson was not systematic, but nevertheless his message comes across very clear. Some of his works most relevant this theme are Self Reliance, Intellect and Art (Essays, First Series), The Poet and Politics (Essays, Second Series), and Genius and Religion (Early Lectures).
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Centenary Edition. Ed. Edward Waldo Emerson. Boston, 1903–1904.
Online edition (UMich): http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/emerson/
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2. Ed. Stephen E. Whicher and Robert E. Spiller. Cambridge, MA, 1964.
Written by John Uebersax
June 22, 2015 at 10:13 pm
Posted in American Transcendentalism, Cognitive psychology, Cultivation of the Intellect, Cultural psychology, Culture, Economics, Education, Education reform, Globalization, Higher Education, History, Humanities, Idealism, Law, Libertarian, Literature, Love, Materialism, Media brainwashing, Militarism, modernism, Moral philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Reading, Reform in government, Renewing America, Scholarship, Self-culture, Social philosophy, spirituality, Transcendentalism
Tagged with common sense, Emerson, universal man, Values
Where is the New Humanism?
In 1967, Pope Paul VI, in the landmark encyclical, Populorum progressio, called upon experts to help forge a "new humanism" — one that that goes beyond mere material concerns to encompass higher values and transcendent aspects of human nature, so as to promote development of "the whole man." This plea was renewed by John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and now again by Pope Francis in his address to the European Parliament (23 November 2014). There is regrettably little evidence of any sustained and coordinated response — or perhaps any response at all — to the past pleas. This makes one wonder how much good it will do for Pope Francis to ask again.
Clearly the ball is in the court of philosophers and intellectuals. Therefore I'd like to pitch a prospectus, as it were — to encourage scholars to pick up this lost thread, consider it, and possibly even eventually get, say, the Templeton Foundation or the EU government to fund conferences or other activity towards this end.
Here are some initial propositions. I offer these as proposals or hypotheses only — as topics for discussion, debate, and dialogue — not as dogmas.
- Human beings have, in addition to a body and a biological nature, an interior life. This constitutes one important meaning of the word soul (Greek: psyche), as logically distinct from two other senses of the word, viz., as an animating spirit, and as some element of the person which survives biological death. This sense of soul as interior life is a phenomenological, empirical reality, experienced by each person. We cannot see another's interior life, but our conversation with others, as well as their conversation and artistic and literary productions, suffice to convince us that others have an interior life basically the same as our own. Understood in this sense, the human soul is a proper object for collective and scientific study.
- To say that human beings have a soul in this sense does not commit us to any particular religious or metaphysical view or belief system.
- Human happiness depends more on the state of ones soul (in the sense we've stipulated) than on one's body. Let's be clear: both 'physical' and 'soul' happiness are important. We merely propose that the natural ordering is such that the latter is more important. To illustrate the point, a person might be rich as Crassus, yet very unhappy; or poor as Diogenes, yet as happy as a person may possibly be.
- Happiness of soul is, almost by definition, moral in nature. By moral we don't mean moralistic, but rather that whole dimension of life that pertains to meaning, and includes arts, intellectual development, and culture generally, as well as ethical actions.
- It would appear even from the most casual survey that integral to moral development is love. By love here we mean something distinct from eros or romantic love, and more like unselfish or disinterested love, agape. This is also different from compassion and sympathy. Associated with this higher love are man's vast creative potentials. Thus the great works of art and literature which we ascribe to genius are typically motivated by or connected with this transcendent love (see e.g., Sorokin, 1954).
- The very nature of human moral development, and hence moral happiness, is such that it can only come about primarily, if not exclusively, as a result of personal effort. Nobody else — no government, parent, teacher, or friend — can, per se, make another person more moral or morally happy. Indeed part of moral happiness is the sense that one has personally overcome obstacles, met challenges, performed difficult tasks, etc.
- It would appear that human beings possess an innate sense of moral goodness (Conscience). That it is innate is evidenced by (1) that our moral sense is ubiquitous, such that virtually everything we see or do is judged in moral terms of good or bad; (2) there is remarkable similarly in standards of good and bad across cultures; and (3) we see this sense operating even in children; if you tell a child, "be good," the child knows exactly what you mean. You don't have to get into a discourse with a child on whether morality is innate or accidental, universal or relative. It as though one said, "You know that sense you and we all have that tells us what is right and wrong? Well start paying attention to it!" A look comes over the child's face like, "Oh right. Now I remember what being good is all about."
- Man is also a social animal, instinctively, like other animals, concerned with the welfare of other members of the species. This means that ones own moral development and the assisting others' moral development are interpenetrating and inseparable.
- It follows from the preceding points that the most important way one can help others is to promote their moral welfare. Certainly material assistance figures into this. But once the basic necessities of life are met, to help others with their moral development becomes a more pressing concern than, say, raising the minimum wage by 5%. Thus it is that, at least in better times, human beings have cooperated socially to produce libraries, museums, art, symphony orchestras, public parks, gardens, and so on.
Everything stated thus far here seems uncontroversial. These are basically common sense notions to which it would seem most people would agree, especially those well educated and with a moderate degree of 'cultural literacy.' Yet one would be hard pressed to find anything like an acknowledged consensus in the academic world, much less in popular culture, that would confirm that we all do share this view. (Such would not have been true 100, or even 50 years ago, when the suggestion that 'we ought to culture ourselves' would be taken as obvious.)
- Now we take things a step further, and enter a more controversial realm. That is to suggest that not only do human being have a soul, but that this soul immortal. We can neither prove nor disprove this proposition. That this premise seems a consistent feature of religion, and that human beings across cultures seem intent on having religion, must be taken as legitimate evidence in favor of the premise, even if it isn't conclusive. Pascal's wager-type reasoning might also be applied: if we do have an immortal soul, we would be very ill-advised to ignore the fact; and this far outweighs the potential disutility of incorrectly believing in an immortal soul. If this proposition is true, then, taken along with points 8 and 9 above, it has considerable bearing on our responsibility to help one another. This is difficult ground to safely navigate to be sure. For the sake of saving immortal souls the Catholic Church once tortured and burned heretics! But such distorted interpretations as this do not per se negate the principle that if human beings have immortal souls then this has important implications for our social duties to one another. Having mentioned this possibility, however, the remaining comments below will pertain only to the less controversial points 1–9 above.
A Secular Transcendental Humanism?
What is sought is a humanism that is both secular, in the sense that is suitable for use by civil institutions and is more or less universally agreed on within society, and transcendental, in the broad sense that it includes aspects of human nature that are not biological and material. To achieve this is by no means a remote possibility. In fact, we can refer to examples that already exist. Platonism is one such example. New England Transcendentalism — which in a sense is Platonism come to America — is another. New England Transcendentalism ought very much to interest us, inasmuch as (1) it was founded on, and remained closely connected with, the Renaissance and classical philosophical traditions of Europe, and (2) was very much a conscious and articulate reaction to modernism. This literature is especially strong in its treatment of the theme of self-culture as a moral imperative. (It's really a pity that professional philosophers today do not give more respect to American Transcendentalist writings!)
Finally, in the writings Carl Jung, despite their frequent obscurity, one can find at least some elements of a secular transcendental humanism. Jung's work offers a bridge between modern science and traditional religions. It makes no appeal to religious doctrine, but relies on scientific and empirical data to argue for the existence of a human soul that is real, nonmaterial, sacred, and incomprehensibly great. By no means would I suggest that Jung's theories in themselves supply a new humanism; only that they supply some suggestions, and more importantly that they demonstrate the possibility of a philosophy that bridges the gap between science and religion.
To re-iterate what was initially said, I propose that there ought to be a conference dedicated to this theme. This wouldn't be very hard to accomplish. I'm constantly surprised at how many books are published each year collecting papers presented at this or that philosophical conference, assembling teams of experts to address topics of much less moment.
Pope Francis. Address to the European Parliament. Strasbourg, France. 25 November 2014.
Pope Paul VI. Encyclical Letter. Populorum progressio (The development of peoples). Vatican City, 1967.
Pope John Paul II. Encyclical Letter. Sollicitudo rei socialis (The social concern).Vatican City, 1987.
Pope Benedict XVI. Encyclical Letter. Caritas in veritate (Charity in truth). Vatican City, 2009.
Sorokin, Pitirim A. The Ways and Power of Love. Chicago, 1954 (repr. 2002).
Written by John Uebersax
December 6, 2014 at 5:02 pm
National Day of Hubris
Again in 2013, the White House has proclaimed a National Day of Hubris.
An ancient tradition, brought to America by the Puritan settlers from Great Britain and exercised regularly here since, is to set aside certain days, especially in times of war, danger, or extreme hardship, for public fasting, humiliation, and prayer. An integral part of this tradition is to reflect as a nation on our failings and to "implore the forgiveness of all our transgressions [and] a spirit of repentance and reformation."
For many years the presidential proclamations of a National Day of Prayer have made scrupulous reference to the principle of repentance. However both presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush have consistently omitted any reference to a penitential spirit in their proclamations.
The last time it was mentioned was by Bill Clinton in 1993 (we should "acknowledge our wrongs") and George Bush Sr. in 1991 (let us "acknowledge with heartfelt remorse" our failures).
So apparently the United States has done no wrong since 1993. The irony is that apparently we still believe in God, and that God can change our condition from ill- to good-fortune. But not that ill-fortune might just possibly have something to do with our own errors, negligence, or selfishness.
Written by John Uebersax
May 3, 2013 at 1:55 am
Posted in Americana, Cultural psychology, Culture, History, religion, Renewing America
America's Covenant with God: John Winthrop's 'City on a Hill' Speech (1630)
N 1630, John Winthrop, who went on to become Governor of Massachusetts, delivered a famous sermon titled, A Model of Christian Charity, to the Puritans en route to New England. This sermon is the proximal source (the actual origin is biblical, i.e., Matthew 5:14) of the phrase, "a city on a hill," which both Presidents Kennedy and Reagan used to describe America.
The city on a hill metaphor has inspired many Americans, and perhaps irritated some others who claimed it expressed a dubious attitude of American exceptionalism. But as I have studied this speech, it has come more and more to impress me as something profound and deeply significant. America, indeed, for Winthrop, was to be a city placed on a hill for all to see. But in what way was it to serve as a model? Of democracy? A land of liberty? A land of productivity and commerce? The answer is plainly revealed in Winthrop's title: America is to be a model of 'Christian charity'. And by this, Winthrop meant something very specific. He meant that America needed to exemplify that particular kind of charity and love described by Saint Paul's Epistles, in which a community is united by love, such that each person is as a different part of the body, and all work together for the common good. In Winthrop's words,
We must delight in each other; make others' conditions our own; rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, as members of the same body. So shall we keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace.
This speech arguably ranks with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as one of the foundational documents of the American people. The Constitution is a compact we have made amongst ourselves. But Winthrop's speech outlines a compact or covenant made with the Supreme Being.
Thus stands the cause between God and us: we are entered into covenant with Him for this work. We have taken out a commission. The Lord has given us leave to draw our own articles; we have professed to enterprise these actions upon these [articles], and these ends; we have hereupon besought Him of favor and blessing.
The terms are that Americans will be a community united in charity.
For this end, we must be knit together in this work as one man. We must entertain each other in brotherly affection. We must be willing to abridge ourselves of our superfluities for the supply of others' necessities. We must uphold a familiar commerce together in all meekness, gentleness, patience, and liberality.
If this is accomplished, God's blessing is anticipated.
The Lord will be our God and delight to dwell among us as His own people and will command a blessing upon us in all our ways, so that we shall see much more of His wisdom, power, goodness and truth than formerly we have been acquainted with.
But should we fail to uphold our terms of the covenant, and turn from God and charity to materialism and selfishness, a "shipwreck" is portended.
I believe as many Americans as are able, especially Christians, should read and reflect on this marvelous sermon. I would, however, suggest that new readers may wish to read only the last 60% of the sermon (which begins, "Having already set forth the practice of mercy…"), which contains the heart and soul of Winthrop's message. The first 40%, very dissimilar in style, gets into specific recommendations for how lending and borrowing should be conducted in the new colony; it lacks the inspired eloquence, timelessness, and prophetic character of the second part of the sermon. Read the first part another time if you wish; but don't let it dilute or distract your attention from the inspired message of the second half, which is the basis of the sermon's fame, cultural importance, and modern relevance.
A Modern Edition
Errors in and discrepancies amongst published versions and lack of a canonical edition in modern English have posed a considerable hindrance to the contemporary reading and appreciation of this important work. I have therefore consulted the published versions, as well as the scanned images of the manuscript copy, and prepared a more accurate and readable version. Explanatory footnotes are supplied, spelling of archaic words has been modernized, and many scriptural citations overlooked in the previous editions have been added. The new edition can be downloaded for free as a pdf document or in MS Word format.
Historical Versions
No original of the sermon in Winthrop's handwriting exists, and it was not published until the 19th century. It is believed the sermon was circulated amongst Puritans in England and Massachusetts, hand-written copies being made for this purpose. One such manuscript copy is known to exist, now in the possession of the New York Historical Society.
Two published transcriptions have been made from this manuscript copy by the Massachusetts Historical Society. The later transcription improves considerably over the earlier one, but still has errors. Both transcriptions can be found online in pdf format:
- Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 3rd series, Volume 7, pp. 31-48. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1838.
- Mitchell, Stewart (ed.) . The Winthrop Papers, Volume 2 (1623-1630), pp. 282-95. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1931.
Another transcription, of intermediate quality relative to the other two, is:
- Morison, Samuel Eliot (ed.). "A Modell of Christian Charity." Old South Leaflets, Vol. 9, No. 207. Boston: Old South Association, 1916, pp. 7–22.
There are several online versions based on the faulty 1838 transcription.
Scanned images of the manuscript copy (not very easy to read, the ornate script being indistinct in places) are available online at the New York Historical Society website.
Additional Reading
A book to recommend: Matthew S. Holland, Bonds of Affection: Civic Charity and the Making of America, Georgetown University, 2007.
Credits: Thanks to staff at the Library of Congress and the New York Historical Society for help in compiling this information.
Written by John Uebersax
April 18, 2013 at 12:09 am
Posted in Americana, Christian, Christianity, Culture, Culture of peace, History, Renewing America, Social philosophy
Tagged with Americana, Arbella, Arbella speech, Christian, Community, John Winthrop, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Puritans
Theodore Parker – 'Only a Hand-Rail of Difference Between the Two Parties'
This continues a series of posts intended to demonstrate the ideological relevance of New England Transcendentalism to the Occupy Movement and to direct readers to this invaluable resource.
Theodore Parker (1810–1860) was one of the greatest orators among the New England Transcendentalists. In the excerpt below, Parker explains that, in the perennial struggle between Idealism and materialism, the US has become dominated by the latter. The two great political parties – the one of the rich and the other of the poor – are alike in that their values and policies are dominated by desire for wealth. It is all too painfully clear how closely the Whigs and Democrats of his era correspond to the Republican and Democratic parties of ours.
Source: Theodore Parker. The Nebraska Question. Boston: Mussey, 1854.
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From 1620 to 1788 there was a rapid development of ideas. But since that time the outward pressure has been withdrawn. The nation is no longer called to protest against a foreign foe; no despot forces us to fall back on the great principles of human nature, and declare great universal truths. Even the Anglo-Saxon people are always metaphysical in revolution. We have ceased to be such, and have become material. We have let the programme of political principles and purposes slip out of the nations consciousness, and have betaken ourselves, body and soul to the creation of riches. Wealth is the great object of American desire. Covetousness is the American passion. This is so — nationally in the political affairs of the country; ecclesiastically, socially, domestically, individually. Our national character, political institutions, geographic situation,— all favor the accumulation of riches.…
No country was ever so rich before, nor got rich so fast; in none had wealth ever such power, or was so esteemed. It is counted as the end of life, not as the material basis to higher forms thereof. It has no conventional check in the institutions of the land, and only two natural checks in the heart of the people. One is the talent and genius — intellectual, moral, affectional, and religious—that is born in rare men; and the other is the desire, the caprice, the opinion, of the great majority of men, who oppose {p. 329} their collective human will against the material glitter of mere accumulated money. But money can buy intellectual talent and intellectual genius; at least it can buy American talent and American genius. Money, and the men of cultivated minds whom it buys, can deceive the people, so that the majority shall follow the dollar wherever it rolls. The clink of the dollar, — that is the reveille, the morning drum-beat, for the American people. In America, money is inaugurated as a power to control all other powers. It has itself become an "Institution" — master of all the rest.
Three of those bad institutions … whereof our fathers brought the traditions from the old world, have mainly perished. The mediaeval Theocracy has gone out from the Protestant Church; Monarchy has wholly faded from the consciousness of the people; Aristocracy, sitting unmovable on her cradle, has had her heart pierced through and through by the gigantic spear of American Industry horsed on a steam-engine. Money has taken the place of all three. It has got inaugurated into the Church, — it is a Church of commerce; in the State — it is a State of commerce; in the Community not less, — it is a society of commerce; and money wields the triple power of those three old masters, Theocracy, Monarchy, Aristocracy. It is the Almighty Dollar.
In the American Church, money is God. The {p. 330} peculiar sins of money, and of the rich, they are never preached against; it is a Church of commerce, wealth its heaven and the millionaire its saint; its ministers should be ordained, not "by the imposition of hands," but of bank-bills — of small denomination. In the American State, money is the Constitution: officers ought to be sworn on the federal currency; they should make the sign of the dollar, ($) as their official symbolic cross; it is a State of commerce. In the community, money is Nobility; it is transmissible social power; it is Aristocracy, it makes a man who has got it a vulgar "gentleman;" it is a Society of commerce….
{p. 331} Money having taken the place of these three institutions, it must be politically represented in the nation by a party; for a party is the provisional organization of a tendency. So there is a party organized about the Dollar as its central nucleus and idea. The dollar is the germinal dot of the Whig party; its motive is pecuniary; its motto should be, to state it in Latin, pecunia pecuniata, money moneyed, money made. It sneers at the poor; at the many; has a contempt for the people. It legislates against the poor, and for the rich; that is, for men pecuniarily strong; the few who are born with the desire, the talent, and the conventional position to become rich. "Take care of the rich, and they will take care of the poor," is its secret maxim. [Note 1] Every thing must yield to money: that is to have universal right of way. Down with Mankind! the Dollar is coming! The great domestic object of Government, said the greatest Expounder of this party, "is the protection of property;" —that is to say, the protection of money {p. 332} moneyed, money got. With this party there is no Absolute Right, no Absolute Wrong. Instead thereof, there is Expediency and Inexpediency. There is no law higher than the power to wield money just as you will. Accordingly a millionaire is reckoned by this party as the highest production of society. He is the Whig ideal; he alone has attained "the measure of the stature of a perfect man."
…But man is man, can a dollar stop him? For ever? The instinct of development is as inextinguishable in man as the instinct of perpetuation in blackbirds and thrushes, who build their procreant nests under all administrations, theocratic or democratic. So there is another party which represents the Majority of the people; that majority who have not money which is coveted, only the covetous desire thereof…. This is the Democratic party. It loves money as well as the Whig party, but has got less of it….
{p. 333} To the Whig party belong the rich, the educated, the decorous; the established, — those who look back, and count the money got. To the other party belong the young, the poor, the bold, the adventurous, everybody that is in want, everybody that is in debt everybody who complains. The audacious are its rulers [Note 2]; — often men destitute of lofty character, of great ideas, of Justice, of Love, of Religion — bold, smart, saucy men. This party sneers at the rich, and hates them; of course it envies them, and lusts for their gold.…
The Democratic party appeals to the brute will of the majority, right or wrong; it knows no Higher Law. Its statesmanship is the power to enact into permanent institutions the transient will of the majority: that is the ultimate standard. Popular and unpopular, take the place of right and wrong—vox populi, vox Dei [Note 3]; the vote settles what is true, what right. It regards money made and hoarded as the foe of human progress, and so is hostile to the millionaire. The Whig calls on his lord, "Money, help us!" To get money, the Democrat can do all things through the majority strengthening him….
{p. 334} … The Whig party worships money: it is the body of the Whig God; there is no Higher Law above it. The Democratic party worships the opinion of the majority: it is the voice of the Democrat's God: there is no Higher Law. To the Whig party, — no matter how the money is got, by smuggling opium or selling slaves, — it is pecunia pecuniata, — money moneyed. To the Democratic party it is of no consequence what the majority wishes, or whom it chooses … If the majority wants to violate the Constitution of America and the Declaration of Independence, or the Constitution of the Universe and the Declaration of God, why! the cry is — "there is no higher law!" {p. 335} "the greatest good of the greatest number!" — What shall become of the greatest good of the smaller number?
There is, therefore, no vital difference between the Whig party and the Democratic party; no difference in moral principle. The Whig inaugurates the Money got; the Democrat inaugurates the Desire to get the money. That is all the odds. So in the times that try the passions, which are the souls of these parties, the Democrat and the Whig meet on the same … platform. One is not higher and the other lower; they are just alike. There is only a hand rail between the two, which breaks down if you lean on it, and the parties mix. In common times, it becomes plain that a Democrat is but a Whig on time; a Whig is a Democrat arrived at maturity; his time has come. A Democrat is a young Whig who will legislate for money as soon as he has got it; the Whig is an old Democrat who once hurrahed for the majority — "Down with money! that is a despot! and up with the desire for it!" …
{p. 336} I once knew a crafty family which had two sons; both men of ability, and of remarkable unity of "principle." The family invested one in each party, and as it had a head on either side of the political penny thrown into the air, the family was sure to win. A New England Family, wise in its generation! [Note 4]
Now, I do not mean to say that all Democrats or all Whigs are of this way of thinking. Quite the contrary. There is not a Whig or Democrat who would confess it. The majority, so far as they have convictions, are very different from this; but the Whig would say in his convention, that I told the truth of the Democratic party; the Democrat, in his convention, would say, I told, the truth of the Whigs. These ideas, — they reside in the two parties [Note 5], … as chemistry in the water, as in the drop the gravitation which brings it to the ground: not a conviction, but a fact. Each of these parties has great good to accomplish. Both seem indispensable. Money must be looked after. It is a valuable thing; the human race could not do without property. It is the ladder whereby we scale the heavens of manhood. But property alone is good for nothing. The will of the majority must be respected. I honor the ideas of the Democratic {p. 337} party, and of the Whig party, so far as they are just. But man is not made merely for money; the majority are the standard of power, not of Right. There is a law of God which directs the chink of every dollar; it cannot roll except by the laws of the Eternal Father of Earth and Heaven. What if the majority enact iniquity into a statute! Can millions make Wrong right? Justice is the greatest good of all.
With little geographical check or interference from other nations, we are going on solving our problem of "manifest destiny." Since the establishment of Independence, America has made a rapid development. Her population has increased with unexampled rapidity; her territory has enlarged to receive her ever greatening family; riches have been multiplied faster even than their possessors. But some of the least lovely qualities of the Anglo-Saxon tribe have become dreadfully apparent. We have exterminated the Indians; we keep no treaties made with the red men; they keep all. The national materialism and indifference to great universal principles of Right shows itself clearer and clearer. Submission to Money or the Majority is the one idea that pervades the nation….
{p. 338} … There is a contradiction in the consciousness of the nation. In our industrial civilization, under the stimulus of love of wealth, and its consequent social and political power, we have made such a rapid advance in population and riches as no nation ever made. The lower powers of the understanding have also had a great development. We can plan, organize, and administer material means for material ends, as no nation has ever done. But it is not to be supposed that any people could pass all at once from the military civilization, with its fourfold despotism, to an industrial civilization with democracy in its Church, State, Community, and Family. How slowly we learn; with what mistakes do we come to the true Idea [Note 6], and how painfully enact it into a deed!
1. E.g., the so-called trickle-down theory of 'Reaganomics'.
2. Cf. Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope (2006).
3. Latin for 'the voice of the people is the voice of God.'
4. A prime tactic of special interests today.
5. Today we might express this by saying that, although many elected officials have principles and are decent men and women, the structural forces of the political system inevitably result in compromise of these principles and their sacrifice to the party agenda.
6. i.e., the 'great principles of human nature' (p. 328), or the Platonic Ideals of Truth, Beauty, Justice, etc.
Written by John Uebersax
April 16, 2013 at 4:31 pm


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7/10/2014 (2 years ago)
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China has revealed that of the $14 billion foreign aid it doled out between 2010 and 2012, more than half went to Africa. The economic powerhouse of Asia underscores its interests in the African continent's rich, natural resources.
Some say the projects prove to be of little to no benefit for local people.
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
7/10/2014 (2 years ago)
Published in Asia Pacific
Keywords: China, Yuan, Africa, foreign relations, foreign aid, intentions
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - China has received criticism from the international community for its support of governments with poor human rights records and lack of transparency, such as Zimbabwe, Sudan and Angola.
The report provided no breakdown of aid recipients or any yearly figures. China put its total foreign aid over the past six decades at $41.32 billion.
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Paling in comparison with the United States' foreign aid, which is about $46 billion for fiscal 2015, China says its aid has no political strings attached -- unlike many Western countries.
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China's links with oil-rich African states, such as Sudan and Angola, have also fuelled criticism as well. They say that Beijing only cultivates relations to secure access to energy and raw materials to power its surging economy.
The Foreign Ministry said China's relationship with African nations goes well beyond its quest for resources and encompasses agricultural, health and infrastructure-related projects.
"China's cooperation with Africa is far from being limited to the sphere of natural resources," ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters. Foreign aid "is an important manifestation of China's international responsibility."
Others argue China's interest is not entirely mercenary. In one project, Chinese experts trained 500 Liberians to weave bamboo and rattan into products they could sell.
"This program has not only created jobs, brought the locals more income and lifted them out of poverty, but also boosted the bamboo and rattan industry in the country," the paper said.
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