"We live in a continent where increasingly powers have gone to a group of people who are NOT elected, CANNOT be removed and DON'T have to listen to us!"- Tony Benn
When few lived long, old age was respected.But now that almost everyone seems to go on for ever and, thanks to a declining birthrate, youth is a rare commodity, it is the young who are looked up to and accorded the kind of reverence African tribes once accorded their elders.This is why so much attention is paid to that odious Swedish girl (Thunberg), who makes Mr Podsnap in Our Mutual Friend seem about as self-doubting as Hamlet, and whose face oozes sanctimony almost as a secretion.She needs to be sent to her room and told not to come down before breakfast....the cult of youth is, at heart, a very sad one. It implies that the peak of life is reached early and thence forward it is downhill all the way.-- Theodore Dalrymple https://theodoredalrymple.wordpress.com
As John Owen notes somewhere, we need to be aware that spiritual growth is not measured so much by height as it is by the obstacles that an individual has overcome in the process if reaching that height. - Sinclair Ferguson, Maturity, p22
And in 'Opticks' he (Newton) writes that the business of science is to ' deduce causes for effects, till we come to the very first cause, which is certainly not mechanical.' - - THE SOUL OF SCIENCE by PEARCEY & THAXTON,
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