On this day in history…
1813: Jane Austin publishes Pride and Prejudice.
Lizzy’s rejection of Darcy’s first proposal was because while he admits to loving her, he also says many insulting things about her family and social position. Darcy makes clear “his sense of her inferiority, of its being a degradation, of the family obstacle, which judgment had always opposed to inclination.” He also seems confident that she will consider it an honor to marry him. These attitudes are offensive to Lizzy, because she does not think Darcy is inherently better than her.
I think we have a lot to learn from Lizzy.
1929: The Seeing Eye, America’s first school for training dogs to guide the blind, founded in Nashville, Tennessee.
All service dogs are truly incredible.
