Odds and Ends

<p>I have now written over 700 pages about political/social matters and 900 pages on science. But I keep on reading and thinking and new issues and different perspectives keep arising with no end in sight. So I return to the practice of collecting the first versions of new essays in modest-sized books as part of my Wanderings series. As long as I continue to wonder I shall continue to wander and to record my wanderings. Is there an end in sight?</p><p></p><p>As I wander I keep making discoveries-things that are new to me that I had failed to realize (not to suggest that no one or even everyone had not already recognized these things). In my idleness (and my awareness of the impending end) I decided to write down the discoveries as they came to me. I rather wish that I had started to do so earlier. But I guess that I assumed that I would remember them or be able to rediscover them again later! Anyway the result is my<em> Wanderings</em> series of which this is number six and takes the total pages to well over 1000.</p><p></p><p>The essays herein address historical matters (the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 Recontruction) philosophy and science (the question of free will) and public policy (health care immigration).</p>