Robertson Davies Quotes
"Civilization rests on two things," said Hitzig; "the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where would this splendidly civilized occasion be without both?"
Davies, Robertson. The Cunning Man. McClelland & Stewart, 1994.
See {629123} for another of Emerson’s definitions of Civilization.
He was in opposition to President George W. Bush of his own party on this issue. The President had a personal religious view that differed from the religious and moral view of most Americans and most religious leaders in the country, albeit some shared his fundamentalist, right wing position.
Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
Lieber in 1860 was assigned by President Lincoln to study the then international laws of war and prepare a manual for the guidance of union troops in the Civil War. Lincoln then issued the document as a general order, and much of today’s military rules of conduct came from that effort.
William Robertson Davies CC OOnt FRSL FRSC was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", an unfashionable term Davies gladly accepted for himself. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate residential college associated with the University of Toronto.
