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Matthew Henry Stephen
No full textSir Matthew Henry Stephen (known as Henry) was born on 5 December 1828 at Hobart, Tasmania, the son of Alfred Stephen and his first wife Virginia nee Consett. His father was appointed an Acting Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales on 30 April 1839 and was a Puisne Judge from 27 March 1841. The family came to Sydney on the 'Medway' on 7 May 1839. Matthew Henry was educated at W T Cape's Sydney College. He was employed as an Associate, first to Sir James Dowling and afterwards to his father, Alfred Stephen. Admitted to the New South Wales Bar on 20 December 1850, he studied in England in 1852, returning to Sydney on 2 January 1853 per the 'Waterloo'. (1)<br /><br />Stephen built up a busy law practice. He was offered the position of Solicitor-General for New South Wales three times, but refused it. From 16 December 1869 to 12 December 1871, he was a member of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales representing the electorate of Mudgee. He was an honorary Examiner in Law at the University of Sydney from 1869 to at least 1891. (2) <br /><br />Stephen acted as a Supreme Court Judge at a number of circuit courts from October 1876 to October 1886, although in July 1879 he refused a permanent appointment. Made a Queens Counsel on 8 April 1879, he was a surrogate of the Vice-Admiralty Court from at least 1882 to 1884. (3) He was appointed a Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales on 19 May 1887. During the absence on leave of the Chief Justice Sir Frederick Matthew Darley, Stephen was Acting Chief Justice from 16 June 1902 till his retirement on 25 February 1904. He was knighted on 19 December 1904 and preferred to be addressed as Sir Henry. (4)<br /><br />Stephen took a prominent part in philanthropic and charitable movements, many of which were connected with his father. He was on the committees of the Benevolent Society of New South Wales, Home Visiting and Relief Society in Sydney, Female Refuge Society, Sydney City Mission, and National Shipwreck Relief Society of New South Wales. He was Director of Sydney Infirmary and Dispensary from 1857 to 1875 and 1908 to 1910, and Honorary Secretary from 1859 to 1866 and 1868 to 1873. He was Chancellor of the Diocese of Sydney for 1886 and 1887, and in the 1880s Chairman of Trustees of Sydney Grammar School, President of the Young Men’s Christian Association, Anglican, and a member of Sydney Diocesan Synods. He was also Vice-president of the NSW Cricket Association c.1906 and from 1895 was a Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute. (5)<br /><br />Stephen died on 1 April 1920 at his home in Bellevue Hill, Sydney. He was survived by his second wife Florence nee Huthwaite and a daughter from his first marriage to Caroline nee Shadforth. (6)<br /><br />Endnotes<br />1. Fred Johns, Johns's Notable Australian, various, the author, 1906, p.163; 1908, p.290; Fred Johns, Fred Johns's Annual, various, the author, 1912, p.26; 1913, p.121; 1914, p.195; Martha Rutledge, 'Stephen, Sir Matthew Henry (1828-1920)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online edition, <a href="http://www.abd.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060205b.htm">http://www.abd.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060205b.htm</a> (cited 11 January 2008); Supreme Court; NRS 13664, Roll of Barristers and Solicitors, 1824-1876, SR Fiche 852, p.5A.<br />2. ADB, op.cit.; Sir Matthew Henry Stephen [Former Member], New South Wales Parliament website <a href="http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/members.nsf/V3ListFormerMembers">http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/members.nsf/V3ListFormerMembers</a> (cited 19 February 2008); NSW Public Service Lists (Blue Books) 1869, p.91; 1870, p.95; 1871, p.93; 1878, p.136; 1883, p.188; 1888, p.203; 1891, p.228; <br />3. Supreme Court of New South Wales: NRS 7710 Notebooks: Circuit Courts [Justice M. H. Stephen], 1876-1903; New South Wales Government Gazette No.88, 26 March 1878, p.1247; No.116, 1 April 1879, p.1481, No.127, 8 April 1879, p.1628; No.131, 10 April 1879, pp. 1681, 1692; No.131, 16 April 1880, p.1790; New South Wales Law Almanac, Sydney, NSW Govt Printer, 1882, p.22; 1883, p.22; 1884, p.22, Sydney, NSW Government Printer, 1882-1884.<br />4. New South Wales Government Gazette No.297, 20 May 1887, p.3473; No.388, 20 June 1902, p.4422; New South Wales Law Almanac, op.cit., 1906, p. 21; William Arthur Shaw, The Knights of England, orig pub 1906, p. 419, at Google Books <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=TOM3GNgwNdkC">http://books.google.com/books?id=TOM3GNgwNdkC</a> (cited 28 February 2008); It's an honour website <a href="http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au">http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au</a> (cited 23 January 2008).<br />5. ADB, op.cit., Fred Johns, op.cit.; Sir Matthew Henry Stephen [Former Member], New South Wales Parliament website, op.cit.<br />6. ibid.PER-96Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 16/12/1869 - 12/12/1871<br/>Acting Judge, Supreme Court of New South Wales, 01/10/1876 - 31/10/1886<br/>Surrogate Judge, Vice-Admiralty Court, 01/01/1882 - 31/12/1884<br/>Puisne Judge, Supreme Court of New South Wales, 19/05/1887 - 25/02/1904<br/>Acting Chief Justice, Supreme Court of NSW, 16/06/1902 - 25/02/1904<br/>
Artful living and the eradication of worry in Søren Kierkegaard's interpretation of Matthew 6:24-34
No full textDanish thinker Søren Kierkegaard published fourteen discourses, across four collections, on Matthew 6:24-34. The repeated readings of the biblical text, whose themes include the choice between God and mammon, worry, what it means to consider the birds and lilies, and how to seek first the kingdom of God, converge with Kierkegaard’s interest in anxiety, despair, worry, subjectivity, indirect communication, choice, the moment, and life before God. Accordingly, the discourses make connections with his larger works, elucidate frequently explored Kierkegaardian themes in recent scholarship, and contribute to his critique of nineteenth-century Copenhagen. Additionally, the collections present an interpretation of each verse and phrase of Matthew’s text and, held up against modern Matthew scholarship, they correlate with and contribute to Sermon on the Mount and New Testament studies. Kierkegaard’s reading of Matthew also holds implications for the practice of biblical interpretation as it promotes the importance of awareness of sin, interestedness, and appropriation as central to proper reading. His emphasis on Christ as the primary exemplar of Matthew’s text adds an additional Christological element to his hermeneutic. Furthermore, the discourses serve as spiritual treatises which provide the reader with theological terminology to help confront the problem of worry and suffering. In light of a human being’s distinctiveness as imago Dei, Kierkegaard elucidates ways an individual may respond artfully to the ongoing possibility of worry, a possibility which the discourses connect with Christian anthropology and external labels associated with possessions and status. The Matthew 6 discourses intimate Kierkegaard’s sympathy with classic Christian spirituality and, in combination with the cultural-ecclesiastical critique, the creative exegesis, and the in-depth analysis of the cause of and cure for worry, his work emerges as an excellent example of spiritual theology
Approximating Output Probabilities of Shallow Quantum Circuits Which Are Geometrically-Local in Any Fixed Dimension
No full textWe present a classical algorithm that, for any D-dimensional geometrically-local, quantum circuit C of polylogarithmic-depth, and any bit string x ∈ {0,1}ⁿ, can compute the quantity ||² to within any inverse-polynomial additive error in quasi-polynomial time, for any fixed dimension D. This is an extension of the result [Nolan J. Coble and Matthew Coudron, 2021], which originally proved this result for D = 3. To see why this is interesting, note that, while the D = 1 case of this result follows from a standard use of Matrix Product States, known for decades, the D = 2 case required novel and interesting techniques introduced in [Sergy Bravyi et al., 2020]. Extending to the case D = 3 was even more laborious, and required further new techniques introduced in [Nolan J. Coble and Matthew Coudron, 2021]. Our work here shows that, while handling each new dimension has historically required a new insight, and fixed algorithmic primitive, based on known techniques for D ≤ 3, we can now handle any fixed dimension D > 3.
Our algorithm uses the Divide-and-Conquer framework of [Nolan J. Coble and Matthew Coudron, 2021] to approximate the desired quantity via several instantiations of the same problem type, each involving D-dimensional circuits on about half the number of qubits as the original. This division step is then applied recursively, until the width of the recursively decomposed circuits in the D^{th} dimension is so small that they can effectively be regarded as (D-1)-dimensional problems by absorbing the small width in the D^{th} dimension into the qudit structure at the cost of a moderate increase in runtime. The main technical challenge lies in ensuring that the more involved portions of the recursive circuit decomposition and error analysis from [Nolan J. Coble and Matthew Coudron, 2021] still hold in higher dimensions, which requires small modifications to the analysis in some places. Our work also includes some simplifications, corrections and clarifications of the use of block-encodings within the original classical algorithm in [Nolan J. Coble and Matthew Coudron, 2021]
Letter From Stephen Coleridge to Frank T. {Margrat} Esq.
No full textabstract: Concerning Coleridge's refusal to write something on Matthew Arnold for the recipient's series.Curator's Note: The letter was written the same year Matthew Arnold died.Paper Details: Originally glued into a book. Leterhead.Provenance: Bookplate inside the book reads "The Edward Bliss Hill and Clara Hood Hill Memorial Collection of Literature given to the Matthews Library Arizona State College at Tempe by their Daughter Gertrude Francis Hill
Matthew’s Emmanuel Messiah: a paradigm of presence for god's people
No full textThe motif of divine presence is a clear phenomenon within the Gospel of Matthew. The modern critical means for assessing the ancient biblical text have multiplied to the point, some claim, of disparity. This study employs both narrative and redaction criticism in an attempt to respond authentically to the structural, historical and theological dimensions of Matthew's Gospel. This study begins with the presumption of the wholeness and integrity of Matthew's narrative, and assumes the gospel story to have an inherently dramatic structure which invites readers to inhabit imaginatively its narrative world and respond to its call. But since we are concerned with the role of both reader and author, this study also assumes a text with an historical author and context. The introduction focuses on the meta-critical dilemma facing New Testament students - what is the text and how do we read it? - and seeks some balance in terms of Krieger's analogy of the text as both window and mirror. Proposed is a narrative reading of Matthew's presence motif alongside a redaction critical assessment of it. In Chapter 2 the elements of narrative theory are introduced and relevant terms defined: the structure of narrative, the function of the narrator, points of view. Chapter 3 becomes an exercise in narrative reading, with Matthew's presence motif providing the focus, and the implied reader’s interaction with the story being predominant in interpretation. Characters, rhetorical devices, and points of view are discussed, to understand the motif's development throughout the story's progress. The thrust of Chapter 4 is thereafter to examine divine presence as a dominant motif within Matthew's most important literary context: the Jewish scriptures. Here the primary paradigms of divine presence provided by the Patriarchs, the Sinai experience, and the Davidic-Zion traditions are assessed. Chapter 5 follows with a more detailed examination of the OT "I am with you/God is with us" formula and its µeo' vµwv/ηuwv language, so strongly connected to Matthew's presence motif. Chapters 6-8 build on these investigations with a closer analysis of the three critical "presence passages" of Mt 1:23. 18:20 and 28:20. The passages and their contexts are probed from a redaction critical perspective, guided by the narrative investigation of Chapter 3, and the background from Chapters 4 and 5.The three major "presence passages" examined in Chapters 6-8 are also complimented by a number of secondary issues: worship, wisdom, the Spirit and the poor in Matthew, and their relation to Jesus' divine presence. These are discussed in Chapter 9. Chapter 10 summarizes and looks briefly at some implications. Matthew' presence motif proves to be an important element of the Gospel’s rhetorical design, redactional strategy and Christology. The presence of Jesus, the Emmanuel Messiah, exhibited in his risen authority, becomes the focus of his people's hopes and experiences in the post-Easter world. What the presence of Yahweh was to his people. Jesus now provides in a new paradigm for his people - his followers, the little ones, the poor and the marginalized, from all nations
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Interview with Matthew R. Pembleton, author, Containing Addiction: The Federal Bureau of Narcotics and the Origins of America’s Global Drug War
No full textIt’s common to place the start of the War on Drugs with the Nixon or Reagan Administrations, but as Matthew Pembleton tells us, those are only phases II and III of a much longer drug war that began in the 1930s with the long-forgotten Federal Bureau of Narcotics. In his new book Containing Addiction: The Federal Bureau of Narcotics and the Origins of America’s Global Drug Wars (University of Massachusetts Press, 2017), Matt tell us about that agency’s history, the charismatic and controversial men who led it and served as its agents around the globe, and the ways in which the current opioid epidemic echoes an enduring pattern of drug use and misuse in the U.S
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Blind injustice : Jesus' prophetic warning against unjust judging (Matt 7:1-5)
No full textThis dissertation seeks to provide a plausible alternative to the consensus interpretation of Jesus' "do not judge" teaching in Matt 7:1-5. While the overwhelming majority of recent interpreters understand "do not judge" (7:1) and its concurrent sayings such as "take the log out of your own eye" (7:5) to promote a non-judgmental attitude, this monograph seeks to situate this block of teaching within a Jewish second-Temple judicial setting. To this end, an overview of the judicial system during the second Temple era is provided, after which it is argued that Matt 7:1-5 is the Matthean Jesus' halakhic, midrashic comment upon the laws for just legal judging in Lev 19:15-18, 35-36 by which he prophetically criticizes unjust legal judging. Jesus' brother James takes up this teaching in Jas 2:1-13, using it to exhort Jewish Christian leaders who judge cases within Diaspora synagogues/churches. Such an alternative interpretation of Jesus' "do not judge" teaching in Matt 7:1-5 matches well other passages in Matthew which likewise speak of judicial, brotherly conflict such as 5:21-26 and 18:15-35. Some early Christian writers who quote or allude to Matt 7:1-5 reflect a judicial understanding of these verses as well, often relating Matt 7:1-5 to Lev 19:15-18, 35-36 and/or drawing parallels between Matt 7:1-5 and one or more of the NT judicial texts which, this thesis argues, is related to it (Matt 5:21-26, 18:15-35; Jas 2:1-13)
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