[meteorite-list] "f" instead of "s" - 1770'sstyle

[joseph_town at att.net]

Doug,

I try to understand what you say but how does confabulations translate into the point you're making? I've read it several times and I just don't get it. The other variations make sense.

Bill


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From: MexicoDoug at aol.com
> Sterling ftrongly, wrote:
> 
> >As for consistency, Doug, besides being the hobgoblin
> >of small minds, everyone spelt and lettered as the spirit >took them within the 
> broad framework of the language.
> 
> HmmmÆ’Æ’Æ’ Sterling, probably everyone fmelt and smelt, not alike.  I wouldn't 
> use words as strong as cannonballs tonight.  I bet the epitome of a 
> philosopher's philosophy you quoted at least originally meant something but so 
> quite different (and political) when written something like:
> 
> "A FOOLISH consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little 
> statesmen and philosophers and divines."
> 
> Otherwise then, without the foolish, why even bother to classify meteorites, or 
> anything else except philosophize eternally? Certainly not to make a point in 
> logic.  God doesn't require a label on meteorites to appreciate their beauty:)  
> You've provided the ultimate argument against the necessity for standard 
> classification in that thought, if there is any consistency to be had in the 
> world!  Or maybe there really is a point then.  Howardite, Eucrite, Where's 
> Waldo? Certainly not in the diogenite... Hats off to some majestically American 
> hatched thought...
> 
> I know, I can't argue with anything you said, if we boldly throw ALL consistency 
> out the window only to contradict tomorrow.  Or is it just foolish?
> 
> Lest we forget, ccientific advancement and logical thought has a bafis or at 
> leaft bafeline in confiftency.  I fo do agree with your fumming-up poft 
> Sterling, of courfe, of courfe, my kingdom for a horfe.  Attributed to 
> fakesphere.:)
> Finest falutations, Doug
> (Bill, pleafe erafe this poft fhould that it naught be of appeal to thee or 
> fomehow offenfive.  I am trying to find mine Doug infide, fadly loft fomewhere 
> in a defert rainbow.  Of courfe fhould thy contrary be, I'd covet thy public 
> confabulations:))
> 
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