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Or then maybe govt is a healthy, legitimate, even God-ordained institution for individuals to share common goods and pursue shared goals.Quote:
Originally Posted by hookdown
It's worth noting that the small govt backers you reference were the largely the same Founders that owned other humans as property. Hamilton, however, was an abolitionist.
It was a complicated time. Hamilton most likely own household slaves (through his marriage), and he bought slaves, if not for himself, for family.
http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/2...ery.html#_ftn7
Jefferson originally proposed Ordinance 0f 1784 would have been prohibited slavery extensively in both the North and South territories, including what would become Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee, and prohibited slavery in all territories by 1800.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...on_and_slavery
Like I said, it was a complicated time and these were complicated men. :icon_wink:
But getting back to the point of the book, Hamilton would love our form of government today. It has almost everything he wanted: a standing army, the IRS, corporate welfare, consolidation of power in DC, erosion of states rights, the constant finding of implied rights in the Constitution, judicial activism, a federal bank, and so on. Hamilton wanted very much to implement the British form of mercantilism as our form of government. About the only thing that has not come to pass is the appointment of a president for life.
Just saying I would have much preferred for the Jeffersonian view to have won out, instead of Hamilton's.
had just about enough kant (kan't reason his way out of a paper sack). moving on to some thomas paine and johann wolfgang von goethe.
godless heathens.Quote:
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heads up on that ...
Finally finished Robert Gates' book. Total shift of gears: Clive Cussler, The Spy. #3 in Isaac Bell series.
yeah, although they may tell you otherwise (depending on what mood you catch them in)Quote:
Originally Posted by Champ967
i like bayard taylor's translation of faust.
If you like the Faust story, try "The Master & Margarita" by Mikail Bulgakov(?).Quote:
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I just re-read The Magicians and The Magician King to get ready to read The Magician's Land. Now about a third of the way in, and liking it very much.Quote:
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I think his character has a name now. They used him on the SHIELD tv show.Quote:
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started to put this on the peeve thread, but decided to revive this one instead. i just read the first three chapters of the martian. cool story. mediocre writing. terrible chemistry. you can't work out chemical equations by volume when you're dealing with liquids. 50 liters of liquid oxygen is not enough to give you 100 liters of liquid water.
i'm still going to read it though. like sherlock holmes and mcgyver, it's cool to imagine even if you know it doesn't really work that way. and so far, the only mistake he's really made is computational error.
Haven't read it yet, but it's on my list.Quote:
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Related: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/the_martian.png
that comic is what put it on my list. but if you're going to write a book with that much intentional nerd appeal, you should at least get your chemistry straight...Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
To Kill A Mockingbird
Getting ready for the new book.
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Book was tremendous. Finished it in three days.
My almost 5-year old won't sit still for anything unless it's one of the Chrinicles of Narnia. We're going all out of order. We read the Horse and His Boy first. Yesterday we finished the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. Today he insisted that we start the Magician's Nephew.
It's some of the most gratifying time he and I spend together...I'm gonna live it up because he won't always want to hang out with me!