“Michael Lewitt talked about the importance of history, and apparently he is frequently asked by young people what the best preparation is for a career in money management. He first tries to talk them out of it, but then tells them to study, in this order:
History
Mass psychology
Then and only then economics, as a distant third subject”
“A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.”
- U.S. President Woodrow Wilson (1911)
“Not to know what happened before you were born, is to remain forever a child”
– Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
“The granite or marble [of a statue] will yield to the ravages of time, but the results of his labour will influence national life, stimulate individual effort, and exert a moral influence to the end of time.”
- The Life and Speeches of the Hon. George Brown, by Alexander Mackenzie. 1881, pp. 157.
Ottawa Citizen – January 10, 2012
The Queen is Canada’s queen: Not just a quaint symbol of our colonial past, the sovereign is the Canadian Crown
By Philippe Lagassé
Should Canada abandon its constitutional monarchy and become a republic? Several commentators and notable politicians think so.
John Buchan,
Lord Tweedsmuir of Elsfield
1875-1940
“He was the Christian statesman extraordinaire” – George Grant
James Robertson: Apostle to the West
By Michael Wagner
Originally published in the October 2009 edition of Reformed Perspective magazine, pages 21-22.
Reading about how the Lord can take a single person, and change the world – how He used people like Martin Luther and John Calvin – can be a great encouragement. But when we read about these great leaders from distant lands, and the distant past, we shouldn’t overlook how God has worked wonders locally through Canadians like James Robertson.
National Post – June 9, 2011
Our majestic democracy, in oratorical form
By Father Raymond J. De Souza
The juvenile antics of the Senate page at Friday’s Throne Speech brought rather more attention than usual to the event itself, which is altogether welcome. The point of the Throne Speech is, amongst other things, that Canada is not a juvenile country.
From: http://anglicanhistory.org/canada/jtlewis/bio/
PREFATORY NOTE
It is an honour and a pleasure to obey the request of Mrs. Lewis to write a few words for the book she is about to publish, giving to the world the life of her late husband, the Archbishop of Ontario.