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fpb...or perhaps something at the midpoint between Independence Day and Bastille Day, in this season of freedom.
The greatest gift that God gave in His greatness,
And closer to His shape of goodness still,
And that in His creating pleased Him best,
It is the freedom of the thinking will;
Bestowed on creatures that have thought and mind
All and alone, from and for all time.
Dante, Paradiso, V 19-24
When, therefore, you hear men ask whether that which is called the future belongs to liberty, you must answer that liberty has something better still: the eternal.
Benedetto Croce (written in the depths of Fascist degradation in the nineteen-twenties)
The greatest gift that God gave in His greatness,
And closer to His shape of goodness still,
And that in His creating pleased Him best,
It is the freedom of the thinking will;
Bestowed on creatures that have thought and mind
All and alone, from and for all time.
Dante, Paradiso, V 19-24
When, therefore, you hear men ask whether that which is called the future belongs to liberty, you must answer that liberty has something better still: the eternal.
Benedetto Croce (written in the depths of Fascist degradation in the nineteen-twenties)
