The Devil begat darkness; darkness begat ignorance; ignorance begat error and his brethren; error begat free- will and presumption...; free-will begat works; works begat forgetfulness of God; forgetfulness begat transgression; transgression begat superstition; superstition begat satisfaction; satisfaction begat the mass-offering; the mass-offering begat the priest; the priest begat unbelief; unbelief begat hypocrisy; hypocrisy begat traffic in offerings for gain; traffic in offerings for gain begat Purgatory; Purgatory begat the annual solemn vigils; the annual vigils begat church-livings; church-livings begat avarice; avarice begat swelling superfluity; swelling superfluity begat fulness; fulness begat rage; rage begat license; license begat empire and domination; domination begat pomp; pomp begat ambition; ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The man who would change the name of Arkansas is the original, iron-jawed, brass-mouthed, copper-bellied corpse-maker from the wil...ds of the Ozarks! He is the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam'd by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the smallpox on his mother's side!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That those tribes [the Sac and Fox Indians] cannot exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizens ...is certain. They have neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor the desire of improvement which are essential to any favorable change in their condition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consci...ousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconscious with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain:... Eastward, the annual legend,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Full fathom five thy father lies, Of his bones are coral made;... Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong. Hark! Now I hear them--ding-dong bell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things; for no kind of traffic... Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all, And women too, but innocent and pure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And Change with hurried hand has swept these scenes: The woods have fallen, across the meadow-lot... The hunter's trail and trap-path is forgot, And fire has drunk the swamps of evergreens; Yet for a moment let my fancy plant These autumn hills again: the wild dove's haunt, The wild deer's walk: in golden umbrage shut,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »