Free Republic

The nineteenth century has often been characterized as an "age of revolution." Indeed, it was an age brimming over with revolutionary ideas of all sorts, as well as with political and social movements seeking to implement those ideas. The cast of revolutionary characters includes Marx and Engels, Darwin, Comte, and Freud; among major events -the French Revolutions, to name but a few. The nineteenth century was also an age of scientific revolution -- not The Scientific Revolution, a designation traditionally reserved for the period of radical and innovative discoveries which occurred in the interval between Copernicus and Newton -- even...

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse — and Thou       Beside me singing in the Wilderness — And Wilderness is Paradise enow. - Omar Khayyám I tell you what, I’ll provide the bread, and the wine - left over from the Flyover Fest.Gerard provides the verse – in narrative form. About paradise. Enjoy. Life is so much more than politics. “This job began in the winter and the only source of heat Miss Helen had was a standard issue wood stove that she also used for cooking. The stove...