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"I care more, says Adam Smith, that you dislike my enemies."

Happy Purim🎉

Here are his three criteria for evaluating a book: (1) is it informed by present forms of scientific knowledge? (2) is it comprehensible with modern writing conventions? (3) is it in dialogue with our contemporaries? Maybe they're the wrong metrics, but they do seem internal.

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Independence Day "ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more." — John Adams in a letter to Abigail July 3, 1776