More specifically concerning: custom
Montaigne 1.23
19 June 2015, around 9.15.
‘Philosophy and Christian Art’ (1868) by Daniel Huntington What can be more barbarous than to see a nation where, by lawful custom, the office of a judge is sold, and judgements are paid for in good ready money, and where justice is by law denied to him who has not the wherewithal to pay for […]
up to nature
4 September 2016, around 6.02.
Mirror Lake on an overcast day Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. [ . . . ] If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much. –Mary Oliver, ‘How I go to […]
inventio
18 August 2024, around 7.48.
Unfortunately I have forgotten how to turn a heel. The men make an effort to help me out with this. In desperation we unravel one sock after another in an attempt to fathom the mystery of the stitch. What makes it worse is that grandmothers in the north knit differently from Germans. There is great […]
Adversaria (36)
31 March 2026, around 4.05.
‘…the unchallengeable opinions of the accredited expounders of Christianity carried infinitely greater weight with their illiterate hearers than, say, those of the press lords with their readers today. Competition had not yet reduced man’s opinion of the value of the commodity supplied.’ —Christopher Hill (The Century of Revolution, p. 77) ‘…a cynical unscrupulousness in high […]