https://aneeshsathe.com/tags/ernst-haeckel/Recent content in Ernst Haeckel on Aneesh SatheHugoen-usTue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://aneeshsathe.com/not-my-lever/Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://aneeshsathe.com/not-my-lever/<h2 id="i-a-burden-no-one-could-carry-alone"> I. A burden no one could carry alone <a href="#i-a-burden-no-one-could-carry-alone" class="heading-anchor">#</a> </h2> <p>Some time around the year 170, in a tent on the Danube frontier, the emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote in Greek to himself: <em>Be like the headland against which the waves continually break, but stands firm and tames the fury of the water round it.</em> The empire was at war with the Marcomanni. The Antonine Plague had reached the army. His children were dying one after another; of his thirteen, only one would outlive him to any consequence.</p>