COMPLETE: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 094 - jo

[Availle]

Here's my contribution.

The Sun's Motion in Space
by Agnes Mary Clerke (already in catalog)
From Scientific American Supplement No. 829 November 21, 1891
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15051/15051-h/15051-h.htm#art2

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf094_sunsmotion_clerke_ava_128kb.mp3
20:02

Thank you!

[Sue Anderson]

Here's my contribution.

The Sun's Motion in Space
by Agnes Mary Clerke (already in catalog)
From Scientific American Supplement No. 829 November 21, 1891
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15051/15051-h/15051-h.htm#art2

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf094_sunsmotion_clerke_ava_128kb.mp3
20:02

Thank you!

Hi Availle,

Thank you for your contribution to vol. 094. A flawless read and PL OK!

I see, from reading the Wikipedia article about Agnes Mary Clerke, that her life in science continues to be an inspiration to young women. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Mary_Clerke. I was intrigued by footnote #25 in that article: "In 2022 Jessie Kennedy and the Celestial Quartet performed a concert in Skibbereen in honour of Clerke. The performance included songs specially composed by Jessie Kennedy and by Tess Leak, using words of Agnes and her sister, Ellen, and a cello trio, the Agnes Clerke Cello Trio, composed by Diana Llewellyn."

Of course, I had to check this out on You Tube and found myself at the West Cork History Festival--a bit of diversion for me on a day when no sun is visible here--it's snowing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoCpLw8PW_M

[Alister]

I'm back. Recording done

News From Scotland, by Anonymous
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41928

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf094_newsfromscotland_anonymous_alister_128kb.mp3 (33.58)

[Sue Anderson]

I'm back. Recording done

News From Scotland, by Anonymous
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41928

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf094_newsfromscotland_anonymous_alister_128kb.mp3 (33.58)

Hi Alister, Welcome back! I've put your recording in the Magic Window, and I'll have time to PL it tomorrow.

[Sue Anderson]

I'm back. Recording done

News From Scotland, by Anonymous
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41928

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf094_newsfromscotland_anonymous_alister_128kb.mp3 (33.58)

PL OK!

[vviera]

The Atomic Bomb vs. Civilization
Robert M. Hutchins
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf094_atomicbombvscivilization_hutchins_vv_128kb.mp3
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112042378528&view=1up&seq=11&skin=2021
19:57

[Sue Anderson]

The Atomic Bomb vs. Civilization
Robert M. Hutchins
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf094_atomicbombvscivilization_hutchins_vv_128kb.mp3
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112042378528&view=1up&seq=11&skin=2021
19:57

Thank you, VViera, for this excellent contribution to vol. 094! Well read and PL OK!

"There is no defense against the atomic bomb... We may find some hope in the fact that in atomic warfare it will be very difficult to tell who has won the war, an issue which has sometimes been difficult to decide even in the pre-atomic age."
Robert Hutchins, 1945.

[Kazbek]

The Altruist in Politics
Benjamin Cardozo
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf094_altruist_cardozo_kaz_128kb.mp3
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1341
15:23

I was misled by the metadata to assume that the speech was about law, and by the time I realized that it's not, I was too close to the end to stop.

Thanks,
Michael

[Sue Anderson]

The Altruist in Politics
Benjamin Cardozo
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf094_altruist_cardozo_kaz_128kb.mp3
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1341
15:23

I was misled by the metadata to assume that the speech was about law, and by the time I realized that it's not, I was too close to the end to stop.

Thanks,
Michael

Hi Michael,
Thanks very much for contributing this most interesting 1889 commencement address by Benjamin Cardozo. It is well read and PL Ok!

Given Cardozo's dates (1870-1939), he must have been 19 years old when he wrote this rejection of "altruism" and "communism." I think that the listener to vol. 094 will find the a comparison of Cardozo's views and those of Robert Maynard Hutchins, (1899-1977), Chancellor of the Univ. of Chicago, fascinating. In Hutchins' essay "The Atomic Bomb," Hutchins, confronting the aftermath of the atomic bomb in 1945, thinks the "salvation of mankind" depends on a "world state" the hope for the creation of which "is to increase the rate of moral progress tremendously . . . beyond anything we have ever dreamed of." Hutchins then states "Since the great aim is a world community, the great task is education."

Cardozo, after discussing the failure of Robert Owen's New Harmony (1824-1828), says bluntly "the so-called rational system of education has not yet transformed the impulses of the aims of men; and the communist of today, with a history of two thousand years of failure behind him, in the same pathetic confidence still looks for the realization of his dreams to the communism of the future."

Here, plainly, is the divide between the men --and between 1889 and 1945. Their final remarks:


Hutchins: "The task [of creating a world community} is overwhelming, and the chance of success is slight. We must take the chance or die." (1945)

Cardozo: " ... if we shall once convince ourselves that altruism cannot be the rule of life; that its logical result is the dwarfing of the individual man; and that not by the death of human personality can we hope to banish the evils of our day, and to realize the ideal of all existence, a nobler or purer life." (1889)

[Kazbek]

Interesting comparison and apposite observation about Cardozo's age! I had assumed that it was a speech he was invited to deliver as a famous alumnus. It makes a different impression coming from a precocious student.

Michael

[Piotrek81]

Guess who's back with more Encyclopedia Britannica readings

Some time ago I discovered Maiorianus YT channel, dedicated to the Late (Western) Roman Empire and what came after the deposition of the last emperor of the West. The following two personages appear throughout the various videos so I thought we might as well have the EB articles about them in the catalogue


https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf094_majorian_encyclopediabritannica_pn81_128kb.mp3 MAJORIAN 2:34
source: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3042652&view=1up&seq=489

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf094_ricimer_encyclopediabritannica_pn81_128kb.mp3 RICIMER 2:45
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b2900096&view=1up&seq=339

[DrSpoke]

Hello! Here is a contribution for your 94th collection:

It's the Introduction to The sexual life of our time in its relations to modern civilization
by Iwan Bloch (1872-1922); translated by M. Eden Paul

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf094_sexuallifeofourtime_iwanbloch_cc_128kb.mp3
12:04

Source: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/zr97kbtj/items?canvas=26

Hopefully it fits and complements some other contributions related to civilisation.

edit: the page number might be helpful...... 23/516 (i.e. page 3). Thanks.

[Sue Anderson]

Hello! Here is a contribution for your 94th collection:

It's the Introduction to The sexual life of our time in its relations to modern civilization
by Iwan Bloch (1872-1922); translated by M. Eden Paul

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf094_sexuallifeofourtime_iwanbloch_cc_128kb.mp3
12:04

Source: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/zr97kbtj/items?canvas=26

Hopefully it fits and complements some other contributions related to civilisation.

edit: the page number might be helpful...... 23/516 (i.e. page 3). Thanks.

Hi DrSpoke,

Thank you for your contribution to vol. 094! Iwan Bloch is a new author for the LibriVox catalog, which we always appreciate!

According to Wikipedia, Bloch (1872-1922) is "known for having proposed the new concept of a science of sexuality." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwan_Bloch.

I found a blog post which was more helpful to me than Wikipedia: https://psychistofwomen.umwblogs.org/sexuality/pre-kinsey/bloch/

The key concept that I got out of Bloch's introduction was this: "Modern civilized man, conceiving history as progress in the consciousness of freedom, has also come to recognize the profound individual significance of love for his own inward growth, for the proper development of his free manhood." It seems to me that further readings from Bloch's writings would interest LibriVox listeners.

Your recording is PL OK!

[Sue Anderson]

Guess who's back with more Encyclopedia Britannica readings

Some time ago I discovered Maiorianus YT channel, dedicated to the Late (Western) Roman Empire and what came after the deposition of the last emperor of the West. The following two personages appear throughout the various videos so I thought we might as well have the EB articles about them in the catalogue


https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf094_majorian_encyclopediabritannica_pn81_128kb.mp3 MAJORIAN 2:34
source: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3042652&view=1up&seq=489

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf094_ricimer_encyclopediabritannica_pn81_128kb.mp3 RICIMER 2:45
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b2900096&view=1up&seq=339

Hi Piotrek81,

Very glad to have you back for volume 094! Wow, those were turbulent times in the Roman empire! I'll have to try the Maiorianus YT channel. What I've been watching recently on YT also has given me a taste of Roman history, but from a very different perspective. This is "Time Team," which features a group of British archeologists. I had no conception how extensive the ruins of Roman occupation in Britain were. These archeologists would have appreciated Majorian's law against the practice of pulling down ancient monuments to use the stone for building material!

Your recordings are PL OK!

[Piotrek81]

It says "Majorlanus" in the MW.