Unhappy am I because this has happened to me? Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.
In a sense England had two reformations: a constitutional one under King Henry VIII (1509–47) and a theological one under the Puritans almost a century later. Under Henry nothing changed doctrinally. England simply rejected the authority of Rome. In this move, however, England forecast the future of Christianity in modern nations.
“Kötü bir anıyı unutmanın en iyi yolu güzel bir tanesiyle değişmektir.”
For a man cannot loose either the past or the future; for what a man has not, how can anyone take this from him?...For the present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived.
Both inequality and poverty stir the by now familiar brew of disturbed genetic function, inflammation, chromosomal and cellular aging, physiological wear and tear, hormonal disturbances, cardiovascular effects, and immune debility, all of which combine to bring illness, disability, and death. Biologically embedded in utero, in childhood, and throughout adolescence, all these are further exacerbated by adversity or threat at any stage of life. Stress hormone levels, for example, are much higher among children of low economic status -a biological hazard for future illness of many kinds.
It was in the year 1800 that the great German naturalist and geographer Alexander von Humboldt first sounded the alarm about the impact of human activity on the climate, having seen the environmental damage wreaked by colonial plantations in Venezuela. He prophesized that our interference with the ecology could have "unforeseeable impact on future generations".
Anker
Was die einen als Anker sehen, der uns im Sturm Halt gibt, betrachten die anderen als eine Leine, die uns zurückhält.
