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From the Roman Republic to the American Revolution: readings of Cicero in the political thought of James Wilson
No full textAs a classical scholar and prominent founding father, James Wilson was at once statesman, judge, and political thinker, who read Cicero as an example worthy of emulation and as a philosopher whose theory could be applied to his own age. Classical reception studies have focused on questions of liberty, civic virtue, and constitutionalism in the American founding, and historians have also noted Wilson’s importance in American history and thought. Wilson’s direct engagement with Cicero’s works, however, and their significance in the formulation of his own philosophy has been long overlooked. My thesis argues that Wilson’s viewpoint was largely based on his readings of Cicero and can only be properly understood within this context. In the first two chapters of my thesis I demonstrate that Wilson not only possessed a wide-ranging knowledge of the classics in general, but also that he borrowed from Cicero’s writings and directly engaged with the texts themselves. Building upon this foundation, chapters three and four examine Cicero’s perspective on popular sovereignty and civic virtue, situate Wilson’s interpretations within contemporary discussions of Roman politics, and analyse the main ways in which he adapts Cicero’s arguments to his own era. Wilson retains a broader faith in the common people than seen in Cicero’s opinions, and he abstracts from Cicero a doctrine of sovereignty as an indivisible principle that is absent in the text; nevertheless, Cicero’s conception of a legitimate state and his insistence on the role of the people provided the foundation for Wilson’s thought and ultimately for his legitimization of the American Revolution. At the same time, like Cicero, Wilson views the stability of the state as resting in the personal virtue of the individual. While his enlightenment philosophy imparts optimism to his conception of the good citizen, his definition of virtue closely follows that of Cicero. As the final chapter of my thesis concludes, their individual interpretations of these theories of popular consent and virtue were instrumental in forming Cicero’s and Wilson’s justifications of civil disobedience
The Four Kings of the Forest: A Fable
No full textAlthough named a fable by the author/illustrator, this 20-page story reaches beyond the usual limits of a fable. It tells the story of four kings -- lion, elephant, gorilla, and snake -- who learn from a boy and make him a fifth king. Ingres mold-made paper with color lineoleum block prints. As Powell's description says, "The colors used and the illustrations are charming." Bound by green thread.Signed by Wilson, #244 of 275Joyce Lancaster Wilso
Map of the Cow Pasture Road and neighbouring counties [cartographic material] : Cumberland, Camden and Cook /
No full textManuscript map of Cow Pasture Road including location of proposed city of Celestium and surrounding region from Camden to Sydney and Parramatta, New South Wales. Shows places, roads, inns, railway stations, wooded hills and forests. Also shows locations of butter, mutton, spatchcock, honey and wine industries.; Oriented with north at bottom right.; Reproduced as frontispiece in: The Cow Pasture Road / Hardy Wilson. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1920. 70 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. (mostly col.), col. map ; 29 cm.; Part of the collection: Hardy Wilson collection.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4282047
Doorway in Hobart, Tas. [picture] /
No full textTitle from inscription as architectural feature bot. c.; Part of the collection: Drawings of colonial architecture by Hardy Wilson, 1912-1953.; Also available online at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an2726749
Castle Inn, Bothwell, Tasmania [picture] /
No full textTitle from inscription as architectural feature top c.; Part of the collection: Drawings of colonial architecture by Hardy Wilson, 1912-1953.; Also available online at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an2723354
wilson-eft/wilson: v1.7
No full text<p>This release only changes a technicality: it makes instances of the <code>Wilson</code> class hashable (with a unique, random hash) which is useful for caching in packages depedning on <code>wilson</code>. Thanks to @peterstangl for implementing this.</p>
<p>The minimum <code>wcxf</code> version required for this to work properly is v1.6. Please make sure to upgrade that package as well (it is done automatically if you use <code>pip</code>).</p>
wilson-eft/wilson: v2.0
No full textThis major release of wilson brings to main new features: one-loop SMEFT-WET matching and the integration of the wcxf-python package.
New feature: one-loop SMEFT-WET matching
Thanks to the full calculation of the one-loop matching of SMEFT onto WET published in arXiv:1908.05295, it was possible to implement this one-loop matching in wilson (#35).
Using an automated conversion of the Mathematica notebook provided by the authors reduces the risk of typing mistakes and also allowed a powerful cross-check, namely that the tree-level matching in the previous version agrees with the new result when switching of one-loop contributions. This check succeeded after correcting a mistake in the tree-level matching paper (9ac1631c3d138c90714a240f84036f9e1861cb54) and is now included as a unit test.
Note that the current implementation of the one-loop matching is fairly slow, of the order of 0.5 seconds. Therefore, one-loop matching contributions are not switched on by default, but can be included by setting the option smeft_matching_order to 1 (default: 0, i.e. tree). For instance, setting one-loop matching as default for a session is achieved with
import wilson
wilson.Wilson.set_default_option('smeft_matching_order', 1)
API change: WCxf
The wcxf-python package provides a low-level API to interact with WCxf files or data structures and predates wilson. When wilson entered the stage, it provided the translators and matchors for this package. This generated a circular dependency that became harder and harder to maintain. Thefore we have decided to merge the wcxf-python package into wilson itself. For this 2.0 release, wcxf now simply lives as an unmodified submodule of wilson and all existing code should continue working by replacing import wcxf with from wilson import wcxf. Also the command line scripts should work unchanged. The wcxf PyPI package itself will be turned into an empty wrapper and is no longer required.
New SMEFT basis
A SMEFT basis that is a hybrid between the "Higgs basis" and the "Warsaw up" basis has been added, along with the required translators.
Bugs fixed
The error in the SMEFT-WET tree-level matching paper mentioned above was fixed (9ac1631c3d138c90714a240f84036f9e1861cb54)
The WET operators VeeLL and VnunuLL were missing symmetry factors in the SMEFT-WET matching (8e892e659187d5595cf7fded145f1e3faaa5ec2b)
The down-type dipole operators (dG, dgamma) were not correctly rotated to the mass basis in the SMEFT-WET matching (412cfa0494058f6fdae45883fcfccdc05c947b65)
The match_run method was unnecessarily slow when only translation was necessary (d147e309d6ec5c4d43cfda3c0e797d3375111478
Interview with Charles Wilson and Kathy Wilson
No full textCharles Wilson is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. He talks about his childhood on Wilson Creek in Tuckasegee, NC. He shares his experience in the Navy and working in the medical ward. Wilson also talks about leaving the Navy and living in Memphis at the time of Elvis and Martin Luther King. His wife, Kathy Wilson shows photographs and tells about the history of the Wilson family in this area and their ties to Western Carolina University
Frederick Wilson, Author-Lecturer, Feb. 1, 1947
No full textNoted Author and lecturer Dr. Frederick Taylor Wilson will speak at the Winthrop College assembly. Dr. Wilson, a nationally recognized authority on the Constitution and American Presidents, will give a lecture entitled The Birth of Our Liberties. Dr. Wilson is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, after which he taught history, as well as taught and practiced law
In Defence of "the Lesser Cousin of History": An Interview with Rohan Wilson
No full textFew branches of postcolonial literature are as contested \ud
as the historical fiction of settler societies. This interview with the Australian historical novelist Rohan Wilson, author of The Roving Party (2011) and To Name Those Lost (2014), explores the intersections between truth, accuracy, and existential authenticity in his fictional accounts of nineteenth-century Tasmania. Wilson offers \ud
a nuanced yet robust defence of fiction’s role in narrating colonial history. He explains his intentions in writing two linked yet distinctive novels of the frontier—one that focuses on the “Black War” of the 1820s and 1830s, and another that explores how racial violence is refracted by capitalism in subsequent decades
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