Thank you so very much for this wonderful essay by Judge Paul B. Matey. Every word a delectable bite. A full course of ambrosia for the legal mind - indeed any mind that partakes of the civic duty as a member of the human community, a mind that would take the trouble to contemplate and seek the answers to two questions - “What is 'Independence'”? And “Independence from 'What'”?
“Jam today”, as water today. Have we forgotten? Or we fear to remember?
I recall Pascal said: “Clarity of mind means clarity of passion too”. In the perennial tussle between these 2 human faculties - and alas, both are given us when the Maker made us - one must not let either go, for either one alone is insufficient, or the Maker wouldn’t have made them both.
Thank you so very much for this wonderful essay by Judge Paul B. Matey. Every word a delectable bite. A full course of ambrosia for the legal mind - indeed any mind that partakes of the civic duty as a member of the human community, a mind that would take the trouble to contemplate and seek the answers to two questions - “What is 'Independence'”? And “Independence from 'What'”?
“Jam today”, as water today. Have we forgotten? Or we fear to remember?
I recall Pascal said: “Clarity of mind means clarity of passion too”. In the perennial tussle between these 2 human faculties - and alas, both are given us when the Maker made us - one must not let either go, for either one alone is insufficient, or the Maker wouldn’t have made them both.