Friday, May 12, 2006

JOHN PYM: G.O.A.T.?



We all know Pym was an absolute monster of a revolutionary, but was he the greatest of them all? I wrestle with this question all the time. I think that if he'd lived past '43, he would have been a lock. Then again, we'll never know how he would have come down in the Putney Debates - whether he would have stood with Lilburne, blah blah blah.
My favorite thing about him is his speeches. Like the dope shit he delivered to Short Parliament:

"This, he said, we might undertake with comfort and hope of success; for tho there be a darkness upon the land, a thick and palpable darkness, like that of Egypt, yet, as in that, the sun had not lost his light, nor the Egyptians their sight (the interruption was only in the medium), so with us, there is still (God be thanked!) light in the sun—wisdom and justice in his majesty—to dispel this darkness; and in us there remains a visual faculty, whereby we are enabled to apprehend, and moved to desire, light. And when we shall be blessed in the enjoying of it, we shall thereby be incited to return his majesty such thanks as may make it shine more clearly in the world, to his own glory, and in the hearts of his people, to their joy and contentment."
- J.P., 04/17/1640

I mean, how can you not love this guy???

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