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R. Williams letter to Mrs. Susan M.Weirman, July 21, 1896
No full textResponse letter from R. Williams to Susan M. Wierman [sometimes spelled Weirman] following up on a visit from photographer M. Wooley, presumably to snap photographs of Susan and the Lundy home to accompany Williams' biographical essay on Lundy. Williams sends along Wooley's letters and requests additional information from Ms. Wierman about the life and times of some meeting houses significant in the life and times of her father, anti-slavery activist and abolitionist periodical publisher Benjamin Lundy. Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839) was a prominent Quaker abolitionist best known for his development of abolitionist periodicals. His Genius of Universal Emancipation was first published in 1821 from his home in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and enjoyed a wide circulation across the antebellum United States. In the 1820s, the young William Lloyd Garrison came to work for The Genius. Benjamin Lundy traveled widely seeking subscriptions to The Genius, giving talks about the anti-slavery movement, and observing and documenting the conditions of enslaved people across the Americas. He was also involved in the establishment of freed slave colonies in Mexico
R. Williams letter to Mrs. Susan M.Weirman, March 23, 1896
No full textLetter from R. Williams to Mrs. Susan M. Wierman (here, spelled Weirman by R. Williams), daughter of Benjamin Lundy, concerning Williams' plan to visit Mrs. Wierman to take photographs for a forthcoming article on the life and times of Lundy, to be published in a Chicago newspaper. Williams describes previous visits to Wierman, and makes notes of the resources, publications and repositories he has used in compiling his study of Lundy thus far. He also makes requests of Mrs. Wierman for a sketch of recollections about life with her father and her own involvement in the abolition movement. Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839) was a prominent Quaker abolitionist best known for his development of abolitionist periodicals. His Genius of Universal Emancipation was first published in 1821 from his home in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and enjoyed a wide circulation across the antebellum United States. In the 1820s, the young William Lloyd Garrison came to work for The Genius. Benjamin Lundy traveled widely seeking subscriptions to The Genius, giving talks about the anti-slavery movement, and observing and documenting the conditions of enslaved people across the Americas. He was also involved in the establishment of freed slave colonies in Mexico
R. Williams letter to Mrs. Susan M.Weirman, September 9, 1895
No full textShort note from Lundy biographer R. Williams to Mrs. Susan M. Wierman (here, "Wiederman") concerning Williams' proposed return visits to Wierman's home in Clear Creek, Illinois. Williams explains that he had intended to visit with a "Col. Plumb"; but Plumb is elderly and had fallen ill. Williams proposes hoping to visit solo in months to come, and asks after the dates of the local Friends Quarterly Meeting. Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839) was a prominent Quaker abolitionist best known for his development of abolitionist periodicals. His Genius of Universal Emancipation was first published in 1821 from his home in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and enjoyed a wide circulation across the antebellum United States. In the 1820s, the young William Lloyd Garrison came to work for The Genius. Benjamin Lundy traveled widely seeking subscriptions to The Genius, giving talks about the anti-slavery movement, and observing and documenting the conditions of enslaved people across the Americas. He was also involved in the establishment of freed slave colonies in Mexico
Lettre de W. B. Robinson à W. Morris sur la mauvaise administration du canal Welland
No full text3 pages, originalLettre de W. B. Robinson à W[illia]m Morris sur : la mauvaise administration du canal Welland; des questions à poser à [R. B.] Sullivan; l'incompétence de la plupart des ingénieurs et des autres constructeurs du canal; le coût énorme des fréquentes réparations au canal; la construction des routes pavées en bois
Public worship and practical theology in the work of Benjamin Keach (1640-1704)
No full textThe late seventeenth century was a critical and fruitful period
for the Particular Baptists of England. Severely persecuted following
the Restoration, toleration in 1689 brought its own perils.
Particular Baptists were fortunate in having several strong leaders,
especially the London trio of Hanserd Knollys, William Kiffin, and
Benjamin Keach. Such a small and severely persecuted group as the
Baptists could afford little time for academic pursuits, thus of
necessity most of their theology was practical in nature.
Benjamin Keach (1640-1704) was the most outstanding practical
theologian among the English Particular Baptists of the late
seventeenth century. This dissertation is a study of Keach, in
particular his writings on public worship and practical theology.
Although Keach was a prolific author, he has been almost completely
neglected by scholars.
After a biographical sketch of Keach, this study considers his
writings on public worship and practical theology. In the area of
worship, Keach made two outstanding contributions: First, he was the
most vocal apologist for Baptist views on Baptism of his period.
Secondly, and more importantly, his hymn writing and defense of hymn
singing broke new ground, not just for Baptists, but for English
Protestantism, in general. In addition to his contributions in these
areas, he also dealt with the laying on of hands and the sabbath day
worship controversy.
Keach's contributions to practical theology fall into two main
groups: his writings that concern religious education and those that
deal with polity. In addition to these, Keach's vigorous advocacy of
a high Calvinist soteriology are also considered under the rubric of
practical theology. Keach's most important (although not his most
positive) contribution in this area were his soteriological writings.
Although well within the bounds of orthodoxy, some of the tendencies
in Keach's soteriology were taken up by the following generation of
Baptist leaders and developed into a stultifying hyper-Calvinism that
handicapped Baptist evangelism and missions.
In the conclusion, Keach's contributions to a theory of practical
theology are considered
The concept of remembrance in Walter Benjamin
No full textThis thesis argues that the role played by the concept of remembrance (Eingedenken)
in Walter Benjamin's 'theory of the knowledge of history' and in his engagement with
Enlightenment universal history, is a crucial one. The implications of Benjamin's
contention that history's 'original vocation' is 'remembrance' have hitherto gone
largely unnoticed. The following thesis explores the meaning of the concept of
remembrance and assesses the significance of this proposed link between history and
memory, looking at both the mnemonic aspect of history and the historical facets of
memory. It argues that by mobilising the simultaneously destructive and constructive
capacities of remembrance, Benjamin sought to develop a critical historiography
which would enable a radical encounter with a previously suppressed past. In so doing
he takes up a stance (explicit and implicit) towards existing philosophical conceptions
of history, in particular the idea of universal history found in German Idealism.
Benjamin reveals an intention to retain the epistemological aspirations of universal
history whilst ridding that approach of its apologetic moment. He criticises existing
conceptions of history on the basis that each assumes homogeneous time to be the
framework in which historical events occur. Insight into the distinctive temporality of
remembrance proves to be the touchstone for this critique, and provides a paradigm
for a very different conception of time. The thesis goes on to determine what is valid
and what is problematic both in this concept of remembrance and in the theory of
historical knowledge which it informs, by subjecting both to the most cogent
criticisms which can be levelled at them. What emerges is not only the importance of
this concept for an understanding of Benjamin's philosophy but the pertinence of this
concept for any philosophical account of memory
Review of \u3ci\u3eSatanta: The Life and Death of a War Chief.\u3c/i\u3e By Charles M. Robinson III
No full textSet-t\u27 ainte, or White Bear, whose name was Anglicized into Satanta, was one of the most feared Southern Plains warriors and raiders in the mid-nineteenth century. Robinson\u27s biography of Satanta also remembered as the Orator of the Plains -grew out of the author\u27s research into the history of Fort Richardson and the May 1871 killing of seven teamsters outside the nearby town of Jacksboro, Texas. White Bear and Big Tree, the two Kiowa warriors held responsible for the teamsters\u27 deaths, were the first American Indian leaders to be tried in a civil court (State of Texas v. Satanta and Big Tree, 1871). Robinson concluded that White Bear was a central figure in the history of the Southern Plains, deserving his own biography.
Like earlier White Bear biographers, such as Clarence Wharton (Satanta: The Great Chief of the Kiowas and His People, 1935), Robinson has consulted and referenced a number of primary and secondary sources to recreate events centered on his subject\u27s life and tragic death. Wharton\u27s book, however, is not footnoted and does not list a bibliography of sources; its only compelling feature derives from its author\u27s having interviewed many of White Bear\u27s contemporaries. A shorter account of White Bear by Donald Worcester appears in R. David Edmund\u27s American Indian Leaders (1980). In comparison, Robinson has consulted more primary documents residing in various archival repositories, although his study does not really contribute any new biographical information.
The book\u27s first two chapters are undoubtedly its weakest, a consequence of inaccurate ethnographic reporting. Robinson refers to James Mooney\u27s Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians (1898) and Colonel Wilbur S. Nye\u27s Carbine & Lance (1939), two of the most frequently cited works on the Kiowas of White Bear\u27s time; however, he misinterprets some ethnographic data from the former and has ignored the other two works by Nye that would have added to his data base. In Robinson\u27s defense, one must acknowledge that Mooney\u27s seminal monograph, so chock-full of historic and ethnographic information, is difficult to wade through, although some errors could have been avoided by a more careful reading. For instance, Robinson alleges that the Kiowa Sun Dance was an annual affair, which is consistent with Mooney, although closer examination of the calendar reveals that Sun Dances were not held some years. Moreover, a Sun Dance, performed to renew the buffalo herds and the Kiowas, was conducted only if an influential male vowed to sponsor one. Had Robinson consulted Bernard Mishkin\u27s Rank and Warfare among the Plains Indians (1940), or Jane Richardson\u27s Law and Status among the Kiowa Indians (1940), he would not have confused the six major bands of the Sun Dance encampment with the ten to twenty subbands or topotoga. In addition, warriors did not acquire merit by their proficiency with a scalping knife, but, as Mishkin points out, by counting coup or risking their lives during combat. Other ethnographic misinterpretations relate to Kiowa belief systems
Loco Foco consternation or the orful kat-ass-trophe
No full textAnother satire on the Glentworth scandal controversy, by the same artist as "The Last Card," "Evenhanded Justice," and "O. K." (nos. 1840-60, -62, and -63). Here the artist lampoons Democratic efforts to sensationalize the Glentworth proceedings. Glentworth is portrayed as a large striped cat frightening scullery maid "Miss Whiting" (actually New York District Attorney James R. Whiting). The cat has emerged suddenly from a large fireplace in a kitchen or cellar area, scattering firewood and andirons and frightening Whiting, who had been seated reading in a chair. Whiting has seized a fireplace shovel and tongs and confronts the cat. To his assistance rush four other Democratic principals in the Glentworth affair, descending the stairs to the left. They are (top to bottom) Van Buren friend and Loco Foco leader John W. Edmonds (brandishing a tomahawk marked "half-breed"), city recorder Robert H. Morris (holding the "fatal package"of evidence which Glentworth had tried to steal from Morris's office), influential New York Democrat Jesse Hoyt (holding a "tariff" stick, emblematic of Hoyt's office as collector of the port), and Federal District Attorney Benjamin F. Butler (holding a broom and paper marked "hypocrite").Drawn by "Spoodlyks".Printed & published by H.R. Robinson, 52 Cortlandt St. N. YorkTitle appears as it is written on the item.Weitenkampf, p. 52.Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1840-61
On Lieb-Robinson bounds for a class of continuum fermions
No full textWe consider the quantum dynamics of a many-fermion system in with an ultraviolet regularized pair interaction as previously studied in [M. Gebert, B. Nachtergaele, J. Reschke, and R. Sims, Ann. Henri Poincaré 21.11 (2020)]. We provide a Lieb-Robinson bound under substantially relaxed assumptions on the potentials. We also improve the associated one-body Lieb-Robinson bound on -overlaps to an almost ballistic one (i.e., an almost linear light cone) under the same relaxed assumptions. Applications include the existence of the infinite-volume dynamics and clustering of ground states in the presence of a spectral gap. We also develop a fermionic continuum notion of conditional expectation and use it to approximate time-evolved fermionic observables by local ones, which opens the door to other applications of the Lieb-Robinson bounds.27 pages, 2 figures; v1->v2: added missing assumption in Corollaries 2.8 and 2.
From large to small N = (4, 4) superconformal surface defects in holographic 6d SCFTs
No full textTwo-dimensional (2d) N = (4, 4) Lie superalgebras can be either ''small'' or ''large'', meaning their R-symmetry is either 𝔰𝔬(4) or 𝔰𝔬(4)⊕𝔰𝔬(4), respectively. Both cases admit a superconformal extension and fit into the one-parameter family 𝔡(2,1;γ)⊕𝔡(2,1;γ), with parameter γ∈(−∞,∞). The large algebra corresponds to generic values of γ, while the small case corresponds to a degeneration limit with γ→−∞. In 11d supergravity, we study known solutions with superisometry algebra 𝔡(2,1;γ)⊕𝔡(2,1;γ) that are asymptotically locally AdS_7 × S^4. These solutions are holographically dual to the 6d maximally superconformal field theory with 2d superconformal defects invariant under 𝔡(2,1;γ)⊕𝔡(2,1;γ). We show that a limit of these solutions, in which γ→−∞, reproduces another known class of solutions, holographically dual to small N = (4, 4) superconformal defects. We then use this limit to generate new small N = (4, 4) solutions with finite Ricci scalar, in contrast to the known small N = (4, 4) solutions. We then use holography to compute the entanglement entropy of a spherical region centered on these small N = (4, 4) defects, which provides a linear combination of defect Weyl anomaly coefficients that characterizes the number of defect-localized degrees of freedom. We also comment on the generalization of our results to include N = (0, 4) surface defects through orbifolding
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