—“Now are we well resolved, And by God’s help and yours, Play the noble sinews of our power, Ours being the West, And The West being Ours, We’ll bend it to our will Or break it all to pieces. Either there we’ll sit, Ruling in large and ample finery Over The West and all her almost honored nations, Or lay these, our bones, In an unworthy urn, Tombless, With no remembrance over them. Either our history shall, with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, Or else our grave, Like imprisoned mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.”—
Source: Original Site Post
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Now We Are Resolved … to War
—“Now are we well resolved, And by God’s help and yours, Play the noble sinews of our power, Ours being the West, And The West being Ours, We’ll bend it to our will Or break it all to pieces. Either there we’ll sit, Ruling in large and ample finery Over The West and all her almost honored nations, Or lay these, our bones, In an unworthy urn, Tombless, With no remembrance over them. Either our history shall, with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, Or else our grave, Like imprisoned mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.”—
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—“For the temples to our Fathers, and the ashes of our Gods.”—
—“For the temples to our Fathers, and the ashes of our Gods.”— The original author misspoke.
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—“For the temples to our Fathers, and the ashes of our Gods.”—
—“For the temples to our Fathers, and the ashes of our Gods.”— The original author misspoke.
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They Hath Gambled a War
—“We are glad the Enemy are so pleasant with us. Their threat, and our pains we thank them for. When we have matched our hearts and sinews to these Arms, We will in The West, by God’s grace, play a match That shall strike their Jester’s crown into the hazard. So, tell Them they hath gambled a war with us. That all the cities of the West will be disturbed With fires. And we understand Them well, How they come o’er us against our wilder Ages, Not measuring what use we made of them.”—
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They Hath Gambled a War
—“We are glad the Enemy are so pleasant with us. Their threat, and our pains we thank them for. When we have matched our hearts and sinews to these Arms, We will in The West, by God’s grace, play a match That shall strike their Jester’s crown into the hazard. So, tell Them they hath gambled a war with us. That all the cities of the West will be disturbed With fires. And we understand Them well, How they come o’er us against our wilder Ages, Not measuring what use we made of them.”—
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Copernicus’ Children and Galileo’s Children
Copernicus’ Children Copernicus never married and is not known to have had children, but from at least 1531 until 1539 his relations with Anna Schilling, a live-in housekeeper, were seen as scandalous by two bishops of Warmia who urged him over the years to break off relations with his “mistress”. His sister Katharina married the businessman and Toruń city councilor Barthel Gertner and left five children, whom Copernicus looked after to the end of his life.
Galileo’s Children Despite being a genuinely pious Roman Catholic, Galileo fathered three children out of wedlock with Marina Gamba. They had two daughters, Virginia (born in 1600) and Livia (born in 1601), and a son, Vincenzo (born in 1606). Because of their illegitimate birth, their father considered the girls unmarriageable, if not posing problems of prohibitively expensive support or dowries, which would have been similar to Galileo’s previous extensive financial problems with two of his sisters. Their only worthy alternative was the religious life. Both girls were accepted by the convent of San Matteo in Arcetri and remained there for the rest of their lives. Virginia took the name Maria Celeste upon entering the convent. She died on 2 April 1634, and is buried with Galileo at the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence. Livia took the name Sister Arcangela and was ill for most of her life. Vincenzo was later legitimised as the legal heir of Galileo and married Sestilia Bocchineri. -
Copernicus’ Children and Galileo’s Children
Copernicus’ Children Copernicus never married and is not known to have had children, but from at least 1531 until 1539 his relations with Anna Schilling, a live-in housekeeper, were seen as scandalous by two bishops of Warmia who urged him over the years to break off relations with his “mistress”. His sister Katharina married the businessman and Toruń city councilor Barthel Gertner and left five children, whom Copernicus looked after to the end of his life.
Galileo’s Children Despite being a genuinely pious Roman Catholic, Galileo fathered three children out of wedlock with Marina Gamba. They had two daughters, Virginia (born in 1600) and Livia (born in 1601), and a son, Vincenzo (born in 1606). Because of their illegitimate birth, their father considered the girls unmarriageable, if not posing problems of prohibitively expensive support or dowries, which would have been similar to Galileo’s previous extensive financial problems with two of his sisters. Their only worthy alternative was the religious life. Both girls were accepted by the convent of San Matteo in Arcetri and remained there for the rest of their lives. Virginia took the name Maria Celeste upon entering the convent. She died on 2 April 1634, and is buried with Galileo at the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence. Livia took the name Sister Arcangela and was ill for most of her life. Vincenzo was later legitimised as the legal heir of Galileo and married Sestilia Bocchineri. -
Comparison of Indian and Western Group Strategies
(offensive argument warning) (excerpt from section 6 “Gloom and Doom”…) —“But while the purpose of Abrahamism has always been to subvert society from the inside, undermining the aristocratic class with guilt and bad conscience while stirring up the underclasses, the strategy of Yoga and Buddhism has been different. The minority Hindu upper caste created a religion of submission for the teeming masses of India, the perfect factory of docile and indolent subjects. To the ever new warlike invaders the traditional system of rule in India, wrapped in the language of resignation and pre-emptive defeat, was the perfect tool of domination and in exchange the native ‘spiritual elite’ of the country managed to preserve their highly inflated social status. That is why India, while a deeply feminine civilization unable to maintain territory or develop technological civilization, and easily and repeatedly dominated by foreign elites, has maintained the same system of rule effectively forever. We may now compare the group survival strategies of India (I) and the West (W) and the results they produce: – Genetic homogeneity producing trust /W) vs Genetic heterogeneity producing mistrust (I) – Maximization of agency through self-improvement (W) vs Despondency and escapism (I) – Sovereignty/dominance (W) vs Servitude/submission (I) – Heroism (W) vs Buddha’s begging bowl (I) – Market rule (W) vs Arbitrary rule (I) – Truth of speech and science (W) vs Magic, obscurantism and fictionalism (I) – Reciprocity (W) vs Deceit (I) And as a consequence: wealth, health, knowledge, innovation and progress (W) vs poverty, sickness, ignorance and stasis or regress (I).”—
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Comparison of Indian and Western Group Strategies
(offensive argument warning) (excerpt from section 6 “Gloom and Doom”…) —“But while the purpose of Abrahamism has always been to subvert society from the inside, undermining the aristocratic class with guilt and bad conscience while stirring up the underclasses, the strategy of Yoga and Buddhism has been different. The minority Hindu upper caste created a religion of submission for the teeming masses of India, the perfect factory of docile and indolent subjects. To the ever new warlike invaders the traditional system of rule in India, wrapped in the language of resignation and pre-emptive defeat, was the perfect tool of domination and in exchange the native ‘spiritual elite’ of the country managed to preserve their highly inflated social status. That is why India, while a deeply feminine civilization unable to maintain territory or develop technological civilization, and easily and repeatedly dominated by foreign elites, has maintained the same system of rule effectively forever. We may now compare the group survival strategies of India (I) and the West (W) and the results they produce: – Genetic homogeneity producing trust /W) vs Genetic heterogeneity producing mistrust (I) – Maximization of agency through self-improvement (W) vs Despondency and escapism (I) – Sovereignty/dominance (W) vs Servitude/submission (I) – Heroism (W) vs Buddha’s begging bowl (I) – Market rule (W) vs Arbitrary rule (I) – Truth of speech and science (W) vs Magic, obscurantism and fictionalism (I) – Reciprocity (W) vs Deceit (I) And as a consequence: wealth, health, knowledge, innovation and progress (W) vs poverty, sickness, ignorance and stasis or regress (I).”—