Evelyn Longman had a difficult and unhappy childhood.
At the age of 14 she went to work for a wholesale dry goods store where she stayed for six years until earning enough money to begin studies at the Art Institute of Chicago.
At the time of her husband's retirement, Evelyn moved her studio to Cape Cod, where she died in 1954, one of the most respected and honored sculptors in American history.
Hall herself claimed later that she had been paraphrasing Voltaire's words in his Essay on Tolerance: "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too." -- http://www.plexoft.com/SBF/V02.html
In 1758, he published ``De l'Esprit,'' which Hall renders ``On the Mind.'' From the little Hall says of it directly, I take it that this was a moral-relativist tract, adducing bad social conditions as the cause of immoral behavior, regarding humans essentially as animals, and skeptical of the validity of moral claims generally.
Friends is not a scholarly work, but Hall is fairly scrupulous throughout the book to state within the text whether she is quoting speech or text, and whether various reports are first-person or likely hearsay.
EvelynBeatriceHall in 1905 wrote the words which she felt portrayed the essence of Voltaire's thought:
But that's really the point: objectivity can be applied (incorrectly in my opinion, and I'm sure in yours) to maintain the status quo and marginalize those fighting for needed change.
On that subject, BeatriceHall and Voltaire would probably agree that locking people up without trial and torturing them (and the threat to all our liberty this represents) must also be fought-- and that it is even news, no matter how long it goes on or commonplace it becomes.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.—Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" — attributed to Voltaire, but written by his biographer, EvelynBeatriceHall...
— attributed to Voltaire, but written by his biographer, EvelynBeatriceHall
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By contrast, in the West, even those who judged that the Pontiff, and others, may have gone too far have been rushing for their dictionaries of quotations to find the exact words of Voltaire about disapproving of what you say but defending to the death your right to say it.
(They were actually written by one EvelynBeatriceHall, a biographer of that icon of the European Enlightenment).
Everywhere have sprung up champions of freedom of expression and crusaders against religious darkness in the name of Western values.
And it doesn't even matter whether you agree with the criticisms leveled by Subramanian.
It's a case of hewing to the statement of author EvelynBeatriceHall, who wrote in "The Friends of Voltaire," "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
If we don't defend that right, and if one of the defensive bastions isn't our school systems, then the battle is lost.
This along with their higher pitched songs lead some to mistake them, or at the very least Taylor for girls (edit)
Peter: Well, sir, while I may not agree with what you say, I'll defend to the death your right to say it."This is a famous quote which appeared in The Friends of Voltaire (1906), written by EvelynBeatriceHall.
What are we going to do now?!The scene where Peter is on the crude raft in the middle of the ocean screaming at the volley ball is a parody of the Tom Hanks film Castaway in where he speaks to a volleyball made by the Wilson company.
Does anyone happen to have some benchmarks showing where the tipping point is between ssh compression being a good choice vs it just slowing things down?
`I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it' - EvelynBeatriceHall
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