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...popular mind, the term "socialism" so often connotes empassioned gentlemen who speak from soap-box platforms and who have no other platforms whatever. The red flag and the harangue had no place with the earliest formulators of socialistic principle. Socialists of the stamp of Russean and Babeux, for instance, saw in their rather visionary conceptions of a commonalty of mankind the most complete amelioration of the social evils that beset France in the 18th century. With the gradual disruption and decay of the French monarchy and the Church in France there had come a surprising shake-up of society...
...Galileo, one of the earliest pioneers of scientific discovery, was summoned before the court of the Inquisition to answer for the heretical statements of scientific fact which he had made in his newly published "Dialogo Dei Due Massimi Sistemi Del Monde...
...print shows Adam and Eve with a feline between them; Rembrandt represents The Holy Family itself "... With Cat"; there is also the famed cat of Visscher (1629-62), earliest of master line engravers, copies of which are now rare indeed. The prints used for Godey's Lady's Book reveal how widespread was puss's honored position in 19th Century society. The best ladies were seldom seen without a cat or cats, which were, in fact, so numerous that children fell over them in parlors...
Although the lectures are intended primarily for graduates, a limited number of members of the Senior class will be admitted on application. Since definite arrangements cannot be made until the number desiring to attend such talks is known, registration is invited at the earliest possible date...
Such a pioneer was Robert Grosseteste born in 1175 of humble parents, who was to become before the end of his long life bishop of Lincoln, the first mathematician and physicist of his age, and one of the earliest of English statesmen...