4.0679 Qs: (Who said...?) (3/46)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 1 Nov 90 21:55:51 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0679. Thursday, 1 Nov 1990.
(1) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 90 21:35:50 EST (15 lines)
From: Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: author, author?
(2) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 90 13:10 EST (16 lines)
From: <NMILLER@TRINCC>
Subject: citation please
(3) Date: Thu, 01 Nov 90 07:13:11 CST (15 lines)
From: Charles Ess <DRU001D@SMSVMA>
Subject: education citation
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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 90 21:35:50 EST
From: Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: author, author?
Someone -- I thought it was Meister Eckhart -- compared the spiritual
life with a miner's digging for gold: you get much dirt and not much
gold. Would anyone happen to know the identity of the author, or an
author? I remember bothering my fellow Humanists about this some months
ago, in vain. I have not been able to place the comparison yet.
In case anyone should wonder, my need is directly related to work in
humanities computing.....
With many thanks,
Willard McCarty
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Date: Thu, 1 Nov 90 13:10 EST
From: <NMILLER@TRINCC>
Subject: citation please
If I may divert the list's attention from humanist hardware for a moment,
a friend asks the provenance of the following lines (which may or may not
be titled "The Hunt").
...'Ere they took the downs,
the sporting bishop blessed the bellowing hounds..
Who, then, I wonder, blessed the fox today,
The clever, tawny fox who streaked away,
And ran before the pack in sheerest play,
Outsmarted man and beast and went his way?
For surely someone blessed the fox today.
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Date: Thu, 01 Nov 90 07:13:11 CST
From: Charles Ess <DRU001D@SMSVMA>
Subject: education citation
Someone asked recently about the source of a quote -- roughly, "the
function of education is to transform cocksure ignorance into thoughtful
uncertainty." I don't recall seeing a response -- if there already has
been one, please discard this note. A student who heard me use it in a
discussion found it a few days later in a book of quotations --
attributed to T.H. Bell, a (former) Education Secretary. He is chasing
down the particulars, if the person making the query is interested in
more detail.
Charles Ess
Drury College