Old Man’s Hope – Allan Octavian Hume
Sons of Ind, why sit ye idle,
Wait ye for some Deva’s aid?
Buckle to, be up and doing!
Nations by themselves are made!
Yours the land, lives, all, at stake, tho’
Not by you the cards are played;
Are ye dumb? Speak up and claim them!
By themselves are nations made!
What avail your wealth, your learning,
Empty titles, sordid trade?
True self-rule were worth them all!
Nations by themselves are made!
Whispered murmurs darkly creeping,
Hidden worms beneath the glade,
Not by such shall wrong be righted!
Nations by themselves are made!
Are ye Serfs or are ye Freemen,
Ye that grovel in the shade?
In your own hands rest the issues!
By themselves are nations made!
Sons of Ind, be up and doing,
Let your course by none be stayed;
Lo! the Dawn is in the East;
By themselves are nations made!
He was always ravenous.
I've read Hume and Kant and both perspectives are lacking.
Hume's argument can be summed up like this:
All things, except the universe, have a cause. The universe does not necessarily need a cause, since it's beyond our experience. <--Major problem with this is that it's borderline circular and technically dodges the question. In other words, Hume's argument is, "We don't know what we can't know, and if we can't know it intuitively, we must learn it factually. We don't have any way to experience the creation of the universe factually, so the creation of the universe does not need a first cause - all it needs is to have existed." This is fine...if we had evidence the universe was infinite. However, evidence points to the fact that the universe had a distinct beginning (a "time 0" as it were), so his premise that we can't know the universe came into existence factually is false, because we can know it came into existence.
Kant's perspective is related and similar, actually was specifically applied because of Hume (Kant does not like Hume's perspective at all). Since we can't know how the universe was created, we can't use causality as a basis for argument. This is arbitrary, however. In other words, Kant's argument is "We can never know, so it's irrelevant." What's interesting about this perspective is that it dodges the question outright and then applies an arbitrary rule that says "if we can never know the answer, we can never use the answer to ask a question."
Kant's perspective is reasonable insofar that the "answer" is God. However, it ignores the fact we can start from a question, "How did the universe come about?" And still apply Aristotelian principles to discover the answer. This however, forms the crux of the debate: what's the answer, since we cannot "prove" God was the first cause? Hume and Kant both, ironically, offer answers to it: through human experience and connecting what we experience to the logic applied. So, for example, I experience and see a universe that has millions of "design elements" in place. Things that, had they been off by a teensy bit, would have made the "hows" of the Big Bang physically impossible. It's more or less the "watchmaker" argument. The criticisms of the "watchmaker" argument generally fall into two broad categories: "Arguments against the argument" and "Arguments against the inference." All the arguments against the inference are mostly sound (Hume's criticism of the Watchmaker analogy is that even if it d
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Assuming all are fit and Henshaw plays no matter Hume has to jump above Aki and Ringrose (and stay in front of Frawley).
Those two have performed so well for Ireland over the last 5 years and are still playing well but Hume just keeps playing so so good.
All I can say is Ireland is blessed for centres right now and feel sorry for the loser outs as only 2 of Henshaw, Aki, Ringrose, Hume, McCloskey, Farrel and Frawley will start. All look up to international standard to me.
Old Man’s Hope – Allan Octavian Hume
Sons of Ind, why sit ye idle,
Wait ye for some Deva’s aid?
Buckle to, be up and doing!
Nations by themselves are made!
Yours the land, lives, all, at stake, tho’
Not by you the cards are played;
Are ye dumb? Speak up and claim them!
By themselves are nations made!
What avail your wealth, your learning,
Empty titles, sordid trade?
True self-rule were worth them all!
Nations by themselves are made!
Whispered murmurs darkly creeping,
Hidden worms beneath the glade,
Not by such shall wrong be righted!
Nations by themselves are made!
Are ye Serfs or are ye Freemen,
Ye that grovel in the shade?
In your own hands rest the issues!
By themselves are nations made!
Sons of Ind, be up and doing,
Let your course by none be stayed;
Lo! the Dawn is in the East;
By themselves are nations made!
