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Treasures of Use and Beauty, Indeed [1]

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Date: 2024-07-05  

While researching an unrelated subject, what I would have thought of as completely unrelated even, a most serendipitous passage stopped my eyes in their tracks sockets. How could these words appear:

At such timely remove from a recent SCOTUS malediction of maldecision

The Declaration of Independence , no less, On the anniversary of, no less,

From within 607 pages of the tome I perused, and

Which itself was just one of many I had been furiously flipping through?

It feels of great import. So much that it has inspired me to share in this, only my second diary, and the first of any length. In addition to the statement itself knocking the breath out of me, which admittedly is not difficult since I currently have a cold or COVID, or both, the experience double-underlined why certain factions despise literacy, shared knowledge, and action based in knowledge. Sir Francis Bacon wrote, in Meditationes Sacrae (1597) ‘Of Heresies’: Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientia_potentia_est

For also knowledge itself is power.

My eternal gratitude to the Internet Archive, https://archive.org/, for making this moment of serendipity possible. So here it is, from substantially closer to the writing and adoption of:

The Constitution of the United States of America

v.

23-939 Trump v. United States (07/01/2024)

In the chapter ‘Officers of Our National Government’, of Treasures of use and beauty : an epitome of the choicest gems of wisdom, history, reference & recreation , https://archive.org/details/treasuresuseand01mackgoog/page/32/mode/2up

written by Mrs. G. W. Mack in 1883, pp.32-33:

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