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Azdak dominates the rest of the work. He shelters the escaping Grand Duke, and then tragically denounces himself for he feels he had betrayed the interests of the people. Expecting to be killed, he sings a denunciation of war profiteering, and the disrespect for human life it implies...
...Enlightenment. Through it all shines his artisan's pride and shrewdness, with its traditional disrespect for aristocratic tradition ("All blood is alike ancient"), foreshadowing independence and his great role in it. Above all. Ben Franklin was a man of the 18th century Enlightenment, with its indiscriminate, omnivorous, ravenous appetite for all facts about all nature. Every blessed thing on earth (Ben had little theological curiosity) he wrote about, asked about, or collected facts about-vacuum jars, the "humors" produced by yellow fever, machines for producing static electricity (fatal to some rats), systems of government and ventilation, the geology...
...almost a precise parallel to the 1956 case of Negro Coed Autherine Lucy, suspended by the University of Alabama for her own "safety" after mob pressure and then expelled because she charged that it was a put-up job. The Georgia riot got an extra touch of disrespect for law when at 2:30 a.m. the Governor's executive secretary, Peter Zack Geer, commended the mob: "The students at the university have demonstrated that Georgia youth are possessed with the character and courage not to submit to dictatorship and tyranny...
Elementary life situations confront even the child with the opportunity to reason out the good to be done and the evil avoided. For instance, says Father Murray, citing an example from St. Thomas, "To know the meaning of 'parent' and of 'disrespect' is to know a primary principle of the natural law, that disrespect to parents is evil, intrinsically and antecedent to any human prohibition." As experience unfolds, more and more precepts are derived-the basis of marriage, property, the state, the nature of justice. As human relationships become increasingly complex, the factoring-out of natural...
...spent tradition man who quickly forgets what they learn and, in case of will probably have to utilize different skills. Finally, he had observed, "The way to peace can't be found if we in all our youth too much military thinking. And I say that not in disrespect to our officers and to the men of our service I respect them most highly. I say this as a citizen interested in the future welfare of the country...