At 07:46 PM 1/15/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote:
On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 07:18 PM, Andri Isidoro Fernandes Esteves wrote:I believe Sir Isaac Newton wrote his Principia on optics, physics, and astronomy and laid the foundations for differential and integral calculus while hole up for almost two years in a rural area of Lincolnshire during a series of outbreaks beginning in 1665.
A huge fraction of the population wasn't in the cities and town at all, where the plague spread most virulently, and so their survivors didn't "inherit immunity." The best protection against the plague was to go to the country, as in rural Italy, France, England, etc. Those who escaped the plague in many cases were never actually exposed to the bacillus at all.
....if America were tempted to ''become the dictatress of the world, she would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.'' What empires lavish abroad, they cannot spend on good republican government at home: on hospitals or roads or schools. A distended military budget only aggravates America's continuing failure to keep its egalitarian promise to itself.
-- John Quincy Adams (extended)
