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August 3, 2006
Dickens on what is our proper business
To my American Friends
The current United States administration is pursuing policies that I believe are wrong. I think my judgement is ethically sound and will be supported by history.
I believe it is also wrong to remain silent on this matter. I state my position publicly and implore you also to do so. "It's not my business" doesn't cut it for me.
SCROOGE
But you were always a good man of business, Jacob.MARLEY
Business! Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!
- A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
G. V. Cormack (cormack@cormack.uwaterloo.ca)
Posted by thdyck on August 3, 2006
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