At 3:24 PM -0400 5/24/96, blanc wrote:
"We are able to act at all - that is to say, we have the power to order our conduct in such a way that the ends we desire can be attained - only because the phenomena of the world are governed not by arbitrariness, but by laws that we have the capacity to know something about. If it were otherwise, we should be completely at the mercy of forces that we should be unable to understand." ~ Human Action, Ludwig Von Mises
Or, the terse version, from my old .sig: "Reality is not optional" -- Thomas Sowell ;-). Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "If they could 'just pass a few more laws', we would all be criminals." --Vinnie Moscaritolo The e$ Home Page: http://www.vmeng.com/rah/