Charles Mackay Quote
We all pay an involuntary homage to antiquity – a blind homage, as Bacon calls it in his Novum Organum, which tends greatly to the obstruction of truth. To the great majority of mortal eyes, Time sanctifies everything that he does not destroy. The mere fact of anything being spared by the great foe makes it a favourite with us, who are sure to fall his victims.
Charles Mackay
We all pay an involuntary homage to antiquity – a blind homage, as Bacon calls it in his Novum Organum, which tends greatly to the obstruction of truth. To the great majority of mortal eyes, Time sanctifies everything that he does not destroy. The mere fact of anything being spared by the great foe makes it a favourite with us, who are sure to fall his victims.
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Charles (or Charlie) Mackay, McKay, or MacKay may refer to:
Charles Mackay (author) (1814–1889), Scottish poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist, and songwriter
Charles McKay (1855–1883), American naturalist and explorer
Charles Mackay (mayor) (1875–1929), New Zealand lawyer, local politician, and Mayor of Wanganui
Charlie MacKay (1880–1953), Australian rules footballer and physician
Charles Reay Mackay, Australian immunologist, fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
Charles R. MacKay, pseudonym for William Harral Johnson and William Stewart Ross used on Life of Charles Bradlaugh, M.P. (1888), a libelous attack on Charles Bradlaugh
Charles MacKay (born 1950), American arts administrator
Charles Mackay (author) (1814–1889), Scottish poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist, and songwriter
Charles McKay (1855–1883), American naturalist and explorer
Charles Mackay (mayor) (1875–1929), New Zealand lawyer, local politician, and Mayor of Wanganui
Charlie MacKay (1880–1953), Australian rules footballer and physician
Charles Reay Mackay, Australian immunologist, fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
Charles R. MacKay, pseudonym for William Harral Johnson and William Stewart Ross used on Life of Charles Bradlaugh, M.P. (1888), a libelous attack on Charles Bradlaugh
Charles MacKay (born 1950), American arts administrator