EVERY intelligent member of the medical profession will certainly recognise the special value of human conscience in the profession.
The problems which are involved in the practice of the beneficent art, the absolute reliance which the anxious patient is compelled to place in his physician, the helplessness of the poor, who form so large a majority of…

— Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910)
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Reformation of science

Protestantism didn’t hold back science – it revolutionised its methods, its theoretical content and its social significance

by Peter Harrison

https://aeon.co/essays/how-protestantism-influenced-the-making-of-modern-science?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=72289caf52-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_03_06_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972

Protestantism at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/4381

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“TOMMY” SHOWS APTITUDE FOR JOURNALISM
“COME in!” said Peter Hope.
Peter Hope was tall and thin, clean-shaven but for a pair of side whiskers close-cropped and terminating just below the ear, with hair of the kind referred to by sympathetic barbers as “getting a little thin on the top, sir,” but arranged with economy, that everywhere is poverty's true helpmate. …

— Jerome K. Jerome
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Dagonet the Fool is an eccentric warrior of King Arthur. Depending on the source, he is depicted as either an incompetent coward, a dangerous madman, or King Arthur's official court jester - who was knighted for his courage, and who plays tricks on the king's enemies.

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‘Rainy Morning’ by Jessica Nelson North

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https://www.deadpoetsdaily.com/p/jessica-nelson-north-poem-rainy-morning

AFEW descriptions of the local roadways of the mound-building Indians have been cited; reasons for believing that they used the watersheds, to a greater or less degree, as highways for passage from one part of the country to another, have been described. Let us look at the matter of their migrations.
That these people did migrate there is no doubt among…

— Archer Butler Hulbert
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"“You make interstellar politics sound a very dirty game.”“It is, but disapproving of dirt doesn’t remove it.”"

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GHAZĀLĪ [Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī]
(1058–1111), Arabian philosopher and theologian, was born at Tūs, and belonged to a family of Ghazāla (near Tūs) distinguished for its knowledge of canon law.

— Griffithes Wheeler Thatcher
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