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Thus in the mighty machinery of the Universe there are many things which contribute to how man ‘fares’, but there is nothing to which man has not himself first given cause. He furnishes the threads out of which in the untiring loom of life the cloak he has to wear is made. We are creatures wandering in both objective and psychological time. Objective time, for example the 24-hour cycle of each day, which is duration of the earth’s rotation on its axis, is a utility to pace activity on earth, just as it takes the earth 365 days (one year) to orbit round the sun. This is a concept of time conditioned by space and the premise of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. A planet orbiting faster or slower round…

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but having new eyes.Marcel Proust Sally is a 16-year-old girl, which is the same sex as she was assigned at birth; Harry is a 12-year-old boy; Alex, a 13-year-old, is …. well, different! Assigned male at birth, Alex is not certain he is a boy and transitions socially to being a girl in order to be as he has always felt, chooses the name Phoebe, dresses as a girl and uses female pronouns! Adolescence is a phase fraught with identity exploration, during which a hitherto closed vault of personality traits streams into the consciousness of the young person. In the approach to puberty, in the course of and after coming out of adolescence, there are some gender-exploring children and…

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The incident, as hardly as the horse dealer could be blamed for it, nevertheless aroused in the country, even among the more moderate and well-intentioned folk, a sentiment that was highly detrimental to the outcome of his lawsuit. The relation of this fellow to the state was felt to be quite insufferable, and behind closed doors as well as in public squares the opinion gained ground that it would be better to do him an outright injustice and again quash the whole affair than to accord him justice in such a trivial matter merely to satisfy his raging obstinacy, and justice that would only reward his acts of violence. To the utter undoing of poor Kohlhaas, the grand chancellor himself, with an excessive zeal for probity, which stirred in him…