Unconquered Peaks

Throughout history, elements of prior revolutions can inspire and resonate within later revolutions. Whilst it would be implausible for a revolution to repeat itself with entirely the same purpose, events and outcomes, there is no doubt that revolutions do echo, oftentimes through the ideas of one field expressing themselves in another. The saying, “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes”, (Earys, 1971), attributed to Mark Twain, is a pertinent claim in regard to this essay. The idea of history rhyming and echoing can be seen in the ultimate goal of a revolution. In some ways. all revolutions echo through each other due to this ultimate goal; they exist and occur because people seek the radical change and subversion of systems which no longer serve to honour their liberties or changing political and philosophical schools of thought. This essay will argue that the revolutionary waves of the Atlantic Revolutions exemplify the echoing rather than repetition of history as the drive for liberty, liberalism and nationalism proliferated in the 18th and 19th centuries. It will further go on to discuss how the anti-establishment and pro-liberal sentiment behind the French Revolution heavily influenced and stimulated the growth of feminist ideologies in the 19th century and will conclude by discussing the presence of patriotism and a misconstrued drive to uphold one’s right to liberty in the Capitol Hill riots, which arguably echoed the mentality of the Sons of Liberty and aimed to preserve the raison d’etre of the American Revolution.

Since Jurassic Park, de-extinction, the process of generating an organism that is either an extinct species or resembles an extinct species, has been an intriguing prospect. The concept of bringing back the woolly mammoth, for example, has been a well-mooted topic for decades, with recent technological improvements turning what was once just a romantic fantasy, into a feasible possibility. Mammoth bones recovered from perilous tundra in northeast Siberia provide the basic ingredient for this ambitious undertaking.