Prince Rupert:
"'If we do naught, we're done; while if we fare and fail, we'll fall together - how better than in battle-brotherhood?'" (p. 213)
(We notice the alliterative verse: fare, fail, fall; better, battle, brother.)
This is always my reply to the Jeremiahs: "We won't succeed in making the world a better place? We certainly won't if we don't try."
Me on a picket line: Defend pensions!
Young worker crossing picket line: There might not be pensions when we retire.
Me: There won't if we don't defend them now!
Scientist campaigning for action on climate change: If we try, we might fail. If we don't try, we will fail.
Onward. Rupert's fight was right insofar as it was against Puritan dictatorship but there were different views on the Parliamentary side, of course.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And any solutions for problems relating to climate change has to be REALISTIC and practical. And that means using nuclear energy and a space based solar energy system. NOTHING else will do or work.
And the rebel Parliament of our timeline soon proved itself unable to rule England and was ousted by the military dictator Oliver Cromwell.
Ad astra! Sean
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