Robert Burns Quotes
Look abroad thro' Nature's range. Nature's mighty law is change.
Robert Burns, 1759-1796, Scottish Poet, Let Not Women E'er Complain
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See Heraclitus {436440} for the ancient Greek exposition of this idea.
1st Baron Macaulay. FDR used the latter part of the quotation in a speech to the Democratic State Convention, Syracuse, NY, September 29, 1936.
She was charged with interfering with the Draft during WWI. She wrote and gave speeches against the war and was convicted according to the laws and court interpretations of the time.
1st Baron Macaulay. See {620691} for a related idea.
See {436440} for another of his views on change.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. It was then, and still is common to refer to the results of evolution as “miracles” as Darwin had revealed the process but did not opine on the origin or creation of the process. With many religious people at the time a sensible dialogue and inquiry could be made of evolution so long as the possibility of a Supreme Being creating the mechanism of evolution remained open. Fundamentalists, however, insisted that the Bible stated that God made each of the species in its then current form and therefore they rejected even the possibility that God had created the evolutionary scheme which implemented his miracles.
Robert Burns, also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, the National Bard, Bard of Ayrshire and the Ploughman Poet and various other names and epithets, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is in English and a light Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in standard English, and in these writings his political or civil commentary is often at its bluntest.
