Pain is better than numbness, and broken-heartedness better than stony-heartedness, as surely as it is better to be alive than dead.

But Facebook is also likely to carry out what’s known in cryptocurrency circles as an “air drop”, handing out small amounts of currency for free in an effort to kickstart the ecosystem.]

The dominance of herbalists in the new, overseas Chinese health care system was a reflection of two perhaps fortuitous circumstances (besides, of course, the lucrative nature of the new Golden Mountain environment itself, which was bound to draw the interest of the commercial herbal practitioners of south China). The first was the predominance of herbal medicine as an extremely well-established and highly successful tradition in the geographical areas from which most Chinese migrants came, namely the Canton Delta. A second was the unique role played in early Chinese migration to the United States, and particularly to Canada, by merchants and other entrepreneurs and community leaders from the strategically placed Hsiung-shan (later Chung-shan) County.

When we consider the era in which Plato lived, before the Revelation of Christ had shed the sunbeams of its life and light upon the world, seeing only a foreshoot of the glorious day about to open, and conjecturing obscurely as to the true relationship and destiny of men, we are astonished at the beauty and justice of his sentiments, and his deep devotion to the laws of Eternal Order and Duty.