Quote for the Day
“To make vicious and abandoned people happy it has generally been supposed necessary first to make them virtuous. But why not reverse this order? Why not make them first happy, and then virtuous?”
Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford. Born in the US, British loyalist in the American Revolution, made a Count by the Bavarian government for straightening out their army and reforming aid to the poor, established that heat was the movement of particles not a fluid, married Lavoisier’s widow, founded the Royal Institution in London, endowed chair at Harvard and . . .
wrote a three hundred page book on how to make kitchens and stoves more efficient and designed the coffee percolator.
