“I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing all you great Men at Soho to-day-Lord! what inventions, what wit, what rhetoric, metaphysical, mechanical and pyrotecnical, will be on the wing, bandy'd like a shuttlecock from one to another of your troop of philosophers! while poor I, I by myself I, imprizon'd in a post chaise, am joggled, and jostled, and bump'd, and bruised along the King's high road, to make war upon a pox or a fever!” MenShouldWarPoorLordSeeingMankindKingsDiseaseShould HaveDoctorsWingsSorryPhilosopherWitInventionPostsGreat MenDivinityPerpetualRhetoricMetaphysicalFeverBumpsBruisedI Am SorryAm SorryHigh RoadPoxSohoPerpetual WarShuttlecock Author:Erasmus Darwin
“Since the narrower or wider community of the peoples of the earth has developed so far that a violation of rights in one place is felt throughout the world, the idea of a cosmopolitan right is not fantastical, high-flown or exaggerated notion. It is a complement to the unwritten code of the civil and international law, necessary for the public rights of mankind in general and thus for the realization of perpetual peace.” WorldIdeasEarthLawFeltCommunityRightsMankindNotionInternationalRealizationCodePerpetualViolationExaggeratedInternational LawComplementUnwritten Author:Immanuel Kant
“So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power: but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.” MenFirstsWellsMeanDesireCausesMankindDelightPerpetualRestlessInclinationModeratesAcquisitionLive Well Author:Thomas Hobbes
“Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: ‘Every living substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe’” MenWorldUniverseMemoriesMankindMirrorsSubstanceGenesPerpetual Book:The Invention of Solitude Source: The Invention of Solitude
“I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.” DesireMankindPerpetualRestlessInclinationLeviathanDesire For PowerAuthority And Power Author:Thomas Hobbes