Quote of the day
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content … it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
J. G. A. Pocock

Born: March 7, 1924
Died: December 12, 2023 (aged 99)
Bio: John Greville Agard Pocock was a historian of political thought from New Zealand.
Known for:
- The Machiavellian Moment (1975)
- Barbarism and religion (1999)
- The ancient constitution and the feudal law (1957)
- Virtue, commerce, and history (1976)
- The discovery of islands (2005)







