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[T]he present state of public affairs shows clearly enough that the State is the poorest instrument imaginable for improving human society, and that confidence in political institutions and political nostrums is ludicrously misplaced. Social philosophers in every age have been strenuously insisting that all this sort of fatuity is simply putting the cart before the horse; that society cannot be moralized and improved unless and until the individual is moralized and improved. Jesus insisted on this; it is the fundamental principle of Christian social philosophy. Pagan sages, ancient sages, modern sages, a whole apostolic succession running all the way from Confucius and Epictetus down to Nietzsche, Ibsen, William Penn, and Herbert Spencer — all these have insisted on it.
— Albert Jay Nock
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Today is Friday, September 8th, the 251st day of 2023. There are 114 days left in the year. It is Star Trek Day, Pardon Day, National Ampersand Day, International Literacy Day, and World Physical Therapy Day.
On This Day
In 1810, the Tonquin set sail from New York with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor’s newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship arrived at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor’s men established the town of Astoria, Oregon.
In 1863, a small Confederate force thwarted a Union invasion of Texas in the Second Battle of Sabine Pass.
In 1900, a powerful hurricane hit Galveston, Texas, killing thousands of people.
In 1932, Patsy Cline was born Virginia Patterson Hensley in Winchester, Virginia.
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