This site used to be Boxing Arts, but has been broadened to include other arts which men have always pursued: Boxing, Hunting, Building and so on.
Philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) probably said it best in the quote above .. repeated again: "Every man is warrior, hunter, fisherman, tool-maker, builder … " - First Principles (1862)
Every man should be, anyway.
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"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy ... neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water." John W. Gardner
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"The power of custom is very great; huntsmen will lie out all night in the snow, or suffer themselves to be burned up by the sun on the mountains; boxers, hurt by the caestus, never utter a groan." (Consuetudinis magna vis est: pernoctant venatores in nive, in montibus uri se patiuntur; pugiles, caestibus contusi, ne ingemiscunt quidem) - Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In the vacant places
We will build with new bricks
Where the bricks are fallen
We will build with new stone
Where the beams are rotten
We will build with new timbers
Where the word is unspoken
We will build with new speech
There is work together
A Church for all
And a job for each
Every man to his work.
Excerpted from The Rock - T.S. Eliot (1934)
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The Men's Club has no political, commercial, academic or spiritual affiliations of any kind.
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Further updates will follow.
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For social and educational events see The Cambridge Moveable Feast at:
http://www.meetup.com/Cambridge-Moveable-Feast/
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