THE IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY
Quite frankly, if one can't comprehend the importance of learning from history, then there are no explanations... No explanations will suffice for blind ideologues who instead indulge in rage and hate, rather than engaging in rational thought and civilized discourse... It requires education, knowledge and an interest in thinking about history in order to comprehend the importance of drawing lessons from the past...
Unhappily, today's very poor educational system has clearly taught too many mis-guided people not to think-- and instead to blindly adopt ideologies that they are told to follow without thinking-- and, there seems to be, amongst so many ignorant people, no desire to learn from history... That's truly tragic...
What is the importance of history if one learns nothing from it?
George Santayana said, "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
Magna Carta
The Magna Carta and the purpose for its creation, literally means 'Great Paper'.
Letter From Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus' letter to the Spanish Sovereigns on civil jurisdiction and privelege of precious metals.
A Grim Reminder of what happens when there are Church and State entanglements
From The Great Civil War: THE CAUSES OF THE WAR, Continued
...The New England Clergy declare the Declaration of Independence “a wicked thing”…
"In the war between the United States and England in 1812, The New England Federalists took sides with England against their own country, so far as they could without actually taking up arms against the United States. Even John Quincy Adams, a Massachusetts man himself, was compelled to confess that: "In the Eastern States, curses and anathemas were liberally hurled from the pulpit on the heads of all those who aided, directly or indirectly, in carrying on the war." I dwell on these matters to show you that there was always a party in New England which was an enemy to the Government of our country. At the time of which I have been speaking, Caleb Strong was Governor of Massachusetts. General Fessenden introduced the following resolution into the Legislature of that State: "And therefore be it resolved, that we recommend to his Excellency, Caleb Strong, to take the revenue of the State into his own hands, arm and equip the militia, and declare us independent of the Union.
At this time Fisher Ames, one of the most distinguished men of New England, said: "Our country is too big for Union, too sordid for patriotism, too democratic for liberty. Our disease is democracy; it is not the skin that festers, our very bones are carious, and their marrow blackens with gangrene."
Rev. Dr. Dwight said : "The Declaration of Independence is a wicked thing. I thought so when it was proclaimed, and I think so still." One of the leading papers of Boston declared: "We never fought for a republic, The form of our Government was the result of necessity, not the offspring of choice."
The Boston Gazette threatened President Madison with death, if he attempted to compel the Eastern States to fight against England at that time.
I could make a large book with extracts from the leading men and the principal papers of New England of those days, showing that there was, through all that section, a wide-spread and a bitter hatred of our democratic form of government, and of the union.
In the South, Slavery was condoned by means of the Bible, and the clergy up North declare Rifles "better than Bibles".
"The churches of New England were very active in this business, and the abolition clergy all over were zealous workers in inciting to bloodshed. One minister, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, declared that "Sharp's rifles were better than Bibles," and "that it was a crime to shoot at a slaveholder and not hit him." All over the North, but mainly in New England, this insanity was prevalent. Ministers of the Gospel distributed guns and rifles for the work of bloodshed. The North was being slowly educated for the great war that followed."
- A Youth's History of the Great Civil War
Van Evrie, Horton & Co., ©1866
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