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...vegetated in invincible apathy.” By contrast, Tocqueville saw that the American system of umbrella federal governance with state and local administration and enforcement allowed citizens to come up with and execute innovative new ideas via “local initiative.” As Josiah Quincy, then President of Harvard and previously Mayor of Boston, informed Tocqueville, the lack of overbearing central authority in America and the abundance of “individual enterprises [surpassed] by far what any administration could undertake...
More than 170 years ago, then-President of Harvard University Josiah Quincy III, class of 1790, gave new meaning to the concept of “zero tolerance.” The namesake of Harvard’s own Quincy House shocked students and faculty alike when he expelled the College’s entire sophomore class...
...Josiah Quincy has this spirit about him and every single person who lives in this House feels it,” said Quincy resident Honor S. W. McGee ’10. “He took a stand and said ‘get your act together,’ and so we proudly eat cake and celebrate his life...
...long as polytheism reigned, there were lots of those prophets. At one point, Israel contained "400 prophets of Asherah" and "450 prophets of Baal," the Bible reports darkly. Josiah's cleansing of the Temple was good strategy in a zero-sum game: the less influence these prophets had, the more...
...Josiah was probably a monolatrist, not a monotheist. But within a few decades of his death, true monotheism would finally emerge. In 586 B.C.E., Israelite lites were exiled to Babylon after conquest by the neo-Babylonian Empire. In passages from Isaiah that are thought to have been written during the exile, Yahweh says unequivocally, "Besides me there is no god." Does this extreme intolerance of other gods - the denial of their very existence - flow from a zero-sum view of Israel's environs...