La grandeur de la France

 

During the Second World War Albert Camus was an editor for a French Resistance newspaper called Combat. Jean-Paul Sartre was captured by the Germans, as a prisoner he read Heidegger, wrote his War Diaries, in 1941 he was released into the public by the Vichy Regime for poor eyesight. Jean Genet, during the second world war, served a number of jail sentences for vagabondage, lewd acts and thieving. I recently subjected Baxter to a crash course on all three writers. Why? He has promised to behave a little longer.

Pollards and Copses

 I do have a slight disagreement with a recent dictionary's understanding of Copse. The coppicing of copses wasn't to make them denser it was irregular harvests of useful hardwoods. Hazel Nut, Chestnut, Ash, Lime, Willow and Alder. This is a picture of Willow.

Ferns have been around for 400 million years

 

Worth recalling Kant as The Philosopher of the Enlightenment. If he had a militaristic subtitle it might have been Dare to Think. In his essay on The Enlightenment he used the phrase Dare to Know. He thought in terms of thinking for oneself as an expression of an individual's maturity. 

Impenetrable Nature of Kant's Critiques

 

He was four inches shorter than Napoleon. His Categorical Imperative was an expensive way of saying Instinct. Polite to think of it as a conclusion arrived at through reason. A curve toward Justice. More like, once Justice is defined instead of dreamed of, it's revealed as lot of hard work and a long way from instinctive, but whether it's a curve or a straight line, the idea that it might be natural instead of struggle cheers a mind up.