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The importance of July 4; Looking around makes us proud and grateful beyond measure
From: Chicago Jewish Star
Date: 20040625
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REFLECTING ON THE TIMES IN WHICH HE lived, the Scottish philosopher and author Thomas Carlyle wisely noted nearly 175 years ago how, when our comfortable situation is threatened, we most appreciate what we have.
"The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick," is the "Physician's Aphorism" with which Carlyle begins his famous essay "Characteristics".
Carlyle's observation comes to mind for this Independence Day not because American civilization is in an historically unique squeeze, but because each day we are reminded of how people suffer -- knowingly or unknowingly -- because of ...
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