Bhadracarya-pranidhana. Buddhist vows of good conduct.

Bloomsbury Group. 1907-30. Agnostic English intellectuals searching for good, true, beautiful. Forster, Woolf, Keynes, Russell, Huxley, et.al.

Buck, Pearl S. 1892-1973. US novelist of Chinese life. Good Earth 1931.

Dualism, Religious. Belief in 2 opposed deities, usually good and evil. Gnosticism.

Ethics. Study of what is good human conduct.

Flying Dutchman. Legendary ghost ship of Cape of Good Hope.

Gama, Vasco da. c1460-1524. Portuguese explorer who rounded Cape of Good Hope 1488. Captured Calicot, India, 1503.

Good Emperors. 96-169. Romans, Nerva to Verus.

Good Parliament. 1376. Reforms against Edward III. Nullified 1377.

Goodman, Benny. 1909-86. US clarinetist/ bandleader. “King of Swing”.

Goodyear, Charles. 1800-60. US. Vulcanized rubber, 1839.

Gresham, Thomas. 1519-79. English founder of Stock Exchange 1560. Gresham’s Law-“Bad money drives out good” (mistakenly attributed).

Hasidism. 18C-. Jewish sect founded by Eliezer, called Ba’al Shem-Tov. Stresses good-heartedness over scholarship, mystical approach to God.

Horus. Egyptian deity of sunlight and goodness. Falcon.

Inflation. General rise of prices of goods and services.

Isherwood, Christopher. 1904-86. English novelist/playwright. Goodbye to Berlin 1939.

Locke, John. 1632-1704. English philosopher. Empiricism-all knowledge is derived from experience: On Civil Government 1689. Essay Concerning Human Understanding 1690. ‘Sound mind in a sound body’. Evil brings pain, Good brings pleasure. Advocated separation of legislature from executive, as applied in Britain and US. Natural rights (property, pursuit of happiness, religion) influenced US Constitution, led to Enlightenment. Philosophical basis of French and American Revolutions. Epistemological foundations of modern Science.

Lo-Johansson, Ivar. 1901-90. Swedish novelist of social causes. Goodnight, Earth 1933.

Manichaeism. 240-6C. Dualist ascetic Persian religion founded by Mani (-274) combining Gnosticism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity. Man’s spirit is good, body is evil. Albigens, Cathars, Paulician.

Marshall, Thurgood. 1908-93. First black on US Supreme Court 1967-92.

Marshall Plan. 1948-52. European Recovery Program. US supplied $12B goods, loans, grants. Rejected by COMECON as ’dollar imperialism’.

Megarian. 4C BC. School of philosophy founded by Eucleides. Good is a single quality by many names.

Mencius. c371-289BC. Chinese. “2nd” Confucian sage. Man is innately good.

Rieboeck, Jan van. 1619-77. Dutch founder of Cape Town.

Romains, Jules. 1885-1972. French writer. 27 vol.Men of Good Will 1932-46.

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