The Order of the Circular Wag
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It is with great excitement that we at Green Moon Pax announce the establishment of a new honor, induction into the Order of the Circular Wag. The nomenclature comes from observation of that most noble beast, the beagle. The beagle has many expressive tail wags, including the small jiggle (indicating pleasant contentment), the rapid back-and-forth (great excitement), and the upward-curled sweep (denoting full engagement in the hunt). But perhaps the greatest of all wags is the circular wag, in which the tail completes a 360-degree rotation in celebration of the arrival of a greatly beloved individual. It is the highest honor the beagle can bestow upon a human.
And so we unveil the Order of the Circular Wag, honoring those individuals whose greatness must be acknowledged in the wider world. The first recipient of the O.C.W. is one Archbishop Raymund of Toledo, a 12th-century Christian bishop in northern Spain. Says Richard Rubenstein, author of Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages:
"Nowadays when people think about the response of the Catholic Church to new knowledge, they often recall Rome's hostility to free inquiry and its willingness to suppress unpalatable truths. But the travails of scientific pioneers such as Giordano Bruno and Galileo have obscured an earlier, brighter image: that of Archbishop Raymund of Toledo, one of the unrecognized heroes of Western culture, who did more than any man to make the treasures of Greek philosophy and science available to the Latin world, and who opened the door to advanced Arab and Jewish ideas as well. Little is known of Raymund's career and personality, but all agree it was his idea to create a translation center in Toledo and to recruit the best scholars available to work there, whether they be Christian, Jew, Muslim, Latin, Greek, or Slav. Moreover, this work would be carried out without censorship. There would be no attempt by Raymund and his colleagues to distinguish between potentially dangerous and inoffensive books, or to substitute orthodox language for non-Christian words or phrases."
In honor of this extraordinary man, whose unsung and largely administrative accomplishments opened the door to the freedoms and scientific advancement of Western culture, we award the Order of the Circular Wag to Bishop Raymund of Toledo.
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It is with great excitement that we at Green Moon Pax announce the establishment of a new honor, induction into the Order of the Circular Wag. The nomenclature comes from observation of that most noble beast, the beagle. The beagle has many expressive tail wags, including the small jiggle (indicating pleasant contentment), the rapid back-and-forth (great excitement), and the upward-curled sweep (denoting full engagement in the hunt). But perhaps the greatest of all wags is the circular wag, in which the tail completes a 360-degree rotation in celebration of the arrival of a greatly beloved individual. It is the highest honor the beagle can bestow upon a human.
And so we unveil the Order of the Circular Wag, honoring those individuals whose greatness must be acknowledged in the wider world. The first recipient of the O.C.W. is one Archbishop Raymund of Toledo, a 12th-century Christian bishop in northern Spain. Says Richard Rubenstein, author of Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages:
"Nowadays when people think about the response of the Catholic Church to new knowledge, they often recall Rome's hostility to free inquiry and its willingness to suppress unpalatable truths. But the travails of scientific pioneers such as Giordano Bruno and Galileo have obscured an earlier, brighter image: that of Archbishop Raymund of Toledo, one of the unrecognized heroes of Western culture, who did more than any man to make the treasures of Greek philosophy and science available to the Latin world, and who opened the door to advanced Arab and Jewish ideas as well. Little is known of Raymund's career and personality, but all agree it was his idea to create a translation center in Toledo and to recruit the best scholars available to work there, whether they be Christian, Jew, Muslim, Latin, Greek, or Slav. Moreover, this work would be carried out without censorship. There would be no attempt by Raymund and his colleagues to distinguish between potentially dangerous and inoffensive books, or to substitute orthodox language for non-Christian words or phrases."
In honor of this extraordinary man, whose unsung and largely administrative accomplishments opened the door to the freedoms and scientific advancement of Western culture, we award the Order of the Circular Wag to Bishop Raymund of Toledo.
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Three cheers for the Bishop Raymund of Toledo (and Rocky) :>) Susan E
ruff.
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