In a 1675 letter to Robert Hooke, Sir Isaac Newton wrote, “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Had he instead changed the words “seen further” to “produced anything,” he might have been speaking for any productive person. Every act of production, even in the simplest of economies, happens only by using previous…
Month: November 2018
In Mourt’s Relation, compiled from the journals of their first year at Plymouth Plantation, William Bradford and Edward Winslow describe what is now referred to as the first American Thanksgiving. By Spring, they and their fellow settlers had built seven dwelling houses and, with much help from their Indian neighbors, achieved a good harvest. In response, Governor Bradford “sent four…
“I could express my Faith in shorter terms. He who loves the Workman and his Work, and does what he can to preserve and improve it, shall be accepted of him.” — John Adams (Letter to Thomas Jefferson, June 28, 1812)