We know these things to be mere trifles

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No. 239. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1711. (pag. 267) 

The universities of Europe, for many years, carried on their debates by syllogism, insomuch that we see the knowledge of several centuries laid out into objections and answers, and all the good sense of the age cut and minced into almost an infinitude of distinctions. 

When our universities found there was no end of wrangling this way, they invented a kind of argument, which is not reducible to any mood or figure in Aristotle. It was called the Argumentum Basilinum (others write it Bacilinum or Baculinum), which is pretty well expressed in our English word club‑law. When they were not able to refute their antagonist, they knocked him down.

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Image & text source: Union or Secession: Virginians Decide

What were Virginians thinking and discussing as the first Southern states withdrew from the United States following the election of Abraham Lincoln in November 1860? Why was Virginia’s decision critical to America’s fate in 1861 and key to the ultimate course and outcome of the sectional crisis?

Virginia was central to American identity for its role in the founding of the United States and its political principles. Both the Confederacy and the Union wanted to claim Virginia’s historical legacy. Union or Secession explores what Virginians thought and debated as the crisis unfolded.

“Prince Mbilini”

1860
Photographer: Unknown
Photo & Text Source: Swaziland Digital Archives

This is often claimed to be the first photo of a Swazi, Prince Mbilini, circa 1860. It isn't Mbilini, nor is it Mswati as claimed by Neil Parsons in his A New History of Southern Africa ( p.137). It is a drawing of a photograph and the photograph was reproduced as Mswati in Saunders's Black Leaders in Southern African History (p.62) with National Archives also getting the credit. Ian Knight reproduces it in his There Will be an Awful Row At Home About This (p.39) and identifies the main figure as Ngoza kaLudaba of the Cube.

Mbilini, by the way, was not the heir and certainly died outside the Swazi country - he was mortally wounded by a British patrol whilst on a cattle rustling expedition near Lüneburg in April 1879. S. Bourquin has a photograph of a man he names as Mbilini in his collection. It has been reproduced several times, on p.33 of Ian Knight's Brave Men's Blood, for example, and could well be authentic.