Birthday remembrance …

… Our Debt to Dr Johnson | History Today. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

For this we can be endlessly grateful because his more than 400 essays in the Rambler, Idler and Adventurer – psychological, literary, political, social, ethical, and religious – encourage us to take a good hard look at ourselves, to think who we are, how we are responding to the world around us, how we have arrived where we are and where we are heading.