The heartbeat of time
Bernard Coote remembers William Penn
William Penn will be remembered quietly in many countries this year, the tercentenary of his death on 30 July 1718.
His style and speech give an appearance of another age: time past. Remembering, though, is more than looking back at something lost in time. William Penn continues with us, significantly. It might be called ‘the heartbeat of time’.
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