Akiva ben Joseph Quotes
Jesting and levity accustom a man to lewdness.
Judah ha-Nasi. "Tractate Aboth." The Mishnah, translated by Herbert Danby, Oxford University Press, 1933, p. 451.
This was the at the time, a typical assessment of the English, Welsh and Scotts about the Irish who were perceived as a lower class of nation. Most interesting was the irreligious perception of a people who would become the most faithful and orthodox of Roman Catholics.
Bellamy preferred the term 'Nationalist' for progressives. Arguing against use of the term 'socialist':
strict and intrusive law enforcement (See {595406})
Referring to the Chinese immigrants:
Explaining the chief cause of the rising divorce rate:
Harrison was a General at the time.
Akiva ben Yosef, also known as Rabbi Akiva, was a leading Jewish scholar and sage, a tanna, of the latter part of the first century and the beginning of the second century. Rabbi Akiva was a leading contributor to the Mishnah and to Midrash halakha. He is also sometimes credited with redacting Abraham's version of the Sefer Yetzirah, one of the central texts of Jewish mysticism. He is referred to in the Talmud as Rosh la-Hakhamim "Chief of the Sages". He was executed by the Romans in the aftermath of the Bar Kokhba revolt.
