<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-0bfeba00-7fff-08d4-7d35-fb79079588e2"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.47696;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:21pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Emeritus professor of English and past Institute Fellow Dr. Paul Johnston joins us at the Ethics Institute today to talk about his podcast series, Fireside Poems. The podcasts (</span><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.firesidepoems.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1J_sFiZ4UNQ3u9dTrb4LNIyJDeQrXc2WXbAVrmd1KLnv40GphqyaOHKeo&h=AT1eKlYWbtjHOfUCQBxE6ANt422xatNXAejvVIkfYEJwWSO6Fe1a9VKKdxJS5-fcFeQXXDJpl2u9uz3hsC39NsORtV0e9HBTMA8ntCloQ5WTlwCEreyQSlCeEIkft4I&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT3OP7F6JP9S8YvJOD95d9IMhklA_x6bgEUvyBivvn0SDllwcxMKWqL0GSbbDQ7zd03Xd0es_ORysFqqmVBhlvNpf6Q2FDS-fOpctEazGR0CgGqRVPmrizMEivQ5hjM6wdjkcPXhyGd5QVtRig8qUKuulAWdM8dKkWquWA5N3PhO3dtWDUod1ClK6VauAub-C_kOHE2UnAODVOtWGgsUzzzfHQ" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.firesidepoems.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) explore primarily the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.59996;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paul explains his motivation for the series this way: "When I think of Longfellow and his fellow poets and what is now missing in American education, I think of the Latin phrase </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">mens sana in corpore sano</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">—a sound mind in a sound body—coined by the first-century Roman poet Juvenal.  I learned this phrase as a schoolboy myself, in the Latin class my mother taught.  This was the goal of a human life, she explained, and thus the goal of a sound education.  America has long abandoned this ideal of education—a sound mind in a sound body—replacing it with the goal of preparing young people not for a life but for a job.  Longfellow’s poetry can’t necessarily help us toward a sound body—though it might—but it can help us toward a sounder mind and, in addition, a sounder society—toward </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">mens sana in societate sana</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.  As I comment on the poems I’ll be sharing with you, I’ll talk about just how poetry helps us have  sounder, stronger, minds—minds more thoughtful and open to feeling—and a sounder society, a society less vulgar, less violent, and more just."</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Wednesday, October 28, noon-1 p.m.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Institute for Ethics in Public Life</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Zoom only: </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-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