George Sarton Quotes
The Hellenistic world was international to a degree, polyglot and inspired by many religious faiths. ...the Greek ideals were pagan and the Hellenistic age witnessed their death struggle against Asiatic and Egyptian mysteries , on the one side, and against Judaism , on the other.
Sarton, George. A History of Science: Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C. Harvard University Press, 1959, p. 1.
This quotation shows Washington's amazing tolerance for the times.
The Governor opposed Jews being allowed into the colony at all, but was overruled by the Dutch West India Company. He feared that this would set a precedent and then Catholics and other “dissenters” would come to New York. He then prohibited them from worshipping as Jews {35223} but was again overruled. He was a very unpopular Governor who himself was a Calvinist fundamentalist having been the son of a Calvinist minister and studied for the ministry himself. The company set the standard of religious tolerance and enforced it. See {611104}. The governor predicted the consequence and the precedent did indeed allow Catholics to come to New York and both Jews and Catholics have been significant New York population groups ever since.
The Afrikaner’s were the descendants of the Dutch farmers who were the first white immigrants to South Africa. They ended up dominating the political scene of South Africa and other white minorities had little political power. The Blacks and Coloreds (Indians) had none in the Afrikaner Apartheid regime. This was a constant theme of the Afrikaners to the other White minorities that if the Afrikaner Apartheid and control of the Black majority, the other white minorities would suffer, This turned out not to be true however. When the Afrikaners were pushed out of control, Nelson Mandella led the Blacks to a non-vengeful creation of a new state, where most of the white minorities were reasonably happy except for some of the diehard Afrikaner racists. Botha was the political leader of the Afrikaners.
At the time Turkey was the only Muslim majority country where there was coexistence with secularism but with Christians and Jews as well. Ataturk, the great Turkish leader, turned Turkey around, modernized it, Westernized it, and made it a secular state with freedom of Religion, much like the United States. However, Erdogan’s party was constantly trying to make the state more Islamic as his electoral base were the poor, religious, Muslims.
He was referring to the historical and traditional American political argument of whether the country should be more or less multicultural. There have, even before the founding of the country, this people who favored not only new people from new cultures and nations, but adopting new and foreign ideas. At the same time, there were those who wanted the American culture to not be corrupted of even changed significantly by large number of new people or those new people reaching positions of influence or power. They also often opposed foreign ideas from certain religions to foreign science; from foreign law to foreign philosophy. This interview was just after the Donald Trump Presidential victory.
George Alfred Leon Sarton was a Belgian-born American chemist and historian. He is considered the founder of the discipline of the history of science as an independent field of study. He has a significant importance in the history of science and his most influential work was the Introduction to the History of Science, which consists of three volumes and 4,296 pages. Sarton ultimately aimed to achieve an integrated philosophy of science that provided a connection between the sciences and the humanities, which he referred to as "the new humanism".
