MATHETΩN

Thanks to Virginia.edu, I now know that at least two hundred fifty times “liberal” appears in George Washington’s papers, while more instances are found in his speeches.

This does rather remind me of a conversation I had with my brother: I told him that “liberal” or some form of it appears seven times in Scripture (and “conservative” never); he assured me that each instance of the word is coupled with dire warnings; I challenged him to show me so. He at last found one instance not obvious (to him) to be enconium — “The liberal soul shall be made fat”; some shadowy curse upon foodstamp-using mothers it meant, to him.