Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eter...nal, immutable and increated wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When in the enfranchisement of the black men [women] saw another ignorant class of voters placed about their heads, and beheld the... danger of a distinctively "male" government, forever involving the nations of the earth in war and violence; and demanded for the protection of themselves and children, that woman's voice should be heard and her opinions in public affairs be expressed by the ballot, they were coolly told that the black man had earned the right to vote, that he had fought and bled and died for his country. It was not because the three-penny tax on tea was so exorbitant that our Revolutionary fathers fought and died, but to establish the principle that such taxation was unjust. It is the same with this woman's revolution; though every law were as just to woman as to man, the principle that one class may usurp the power to legislate for another is unjust, and all who are now in the struggle from love of principle would still work on until the establishment of the grand and immutable truth, "All governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Modernity" signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the... immutable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far as ...blather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for ...the better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In so far as religion assumes the world to be directed by conscious agents who may be turned from their purpose by persuasion, it ...stands in fundamental antagonism to magic as well as to science, both of which take for granted that the course of nature is determined, not by the passions or caprice of personal beings, but by the operation of immutable laws acting mechanically. In magic, indeed, the assumption is only implicit, but in science it is explicit. It is true that magic often deals with spirits, which are personal agents of the kind assumed by religion; but whenever it does so in its proper form, it treats them in exactly in the same fashion as it treats inanimate agents, that is, it constrains or coerces instead of conciliating or propitiating them as religion would do. Thus it assumes that all personal beings, whether human or divine, are in the last resort subject to those impersonal forces which control all things, but which nevertheless can be turned to account by any one who knows how to manipulate them by the appropriate ceremonies and spells.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The belief that there are final and immutable answers, and that the professional expert has them, is one that mothers and professi...onals tend to reinforce in each other. They both have a need to believe it. They both seem to agree, too, that if the professional's prescription doesn't work it is probably because of the mother's inadequacy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of ...mathematics, of physics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nat...ure and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »