“Of Interest” is the blog of The Well-read Naturalist. Here are published items, as the title indicates, of interest.
Upon beginning to read this passage again recently, I laughed out loud when I found myself exclaiming “Timothy!” with the enthusiasm of a child seeing the appearance of a favourite character appear upon a stage.
“It has been my misfortune never to have had any neighbours whose studies have led them towards the pursuit of natural knowledge; so that, for want of a companion to quicken my industry and sharpen my attention, I have made but slender progress in a kind of information to which I have been attached from my childhood.”
I am introducing a new section to The Well-read Naturalist with the title “More Things” in honor of the famous quote from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet;” a play and a sentiment both of which I very much admire.
What Mr. Baier offers in this book is not only the facts of the Act and its history but perhaps just if not even more importantly a reminder that as a nation we were once better than we are now, that we aspired to noble goals and by working together could achieve them.