‘What means soever may be used for the procuring of Unity, or Settlement, in a Country, Men must at the same time be careful not to deface and dissolve the Bonds of Christian Charity; nay of humane Society, since acting to the contrary, is but to dash the second Table against the first; and so to consider others, as of this or that Persuasion, and to treat them ill upon that account, is to forget that they are Men; and indeed to me it seems full as unreasonable to destroy other People, purely because they cannot think as we do, as it is for one man to ruine another, because the outward Figure and Shape of his Body is not the same with his own.’
The Rev George Story (1691)
The Irish Aesthete wishes all friends and followers a Happy and Safe Christmas
And thank you, for this apposite quote, and all else through the year.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and insights with us over the past. May we all have a great new year, in spite of the difficulties we are experiencing today.
Wishing you a very Happy Christmas. Thank you for all your interesting emails. I so enjoy them 🙋♀️🎄
Thank you for all the fascinating content throughout the year. How very apt your quote to the present day, despite the passage of over 330 years since it was first penned!
Best Wishes for Christmas and a very Happy New Year.Also,thank you for the always interesting posts
One would hope that the same wisdom might apply to what appears to be a revival of the national habit of cutting down or defacing roadside deciduous trees, which should be left alone to their own development – their branches conform with the flow of the traffic and pose no especial threat to life or limb. I was caused to think of this by the beauty of the limbs of the tree in the right foreground in your photograph.
Beautiful. A very happy Christmas and New Year.
Wishing a Happy Christmas Robert and thank you for another year of interesting posts.
Happy Christmas from Wexford. Thank you for such wonderful posts.
Thank you for sharing the gift history throughout the year.
Wishing you a Happy Christmas!