We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are alr...eady taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These, and such as these, must be our antiquities, for lack of human vestiges. The monuments of heroes and the temples of the gods... which may once have stood on the banks of this river are now, at any rate, returned to dust and primitive soil. The murmur of unchronicled nations has died away along these shores, and once more Lowell and Manchester are on the trail of the Indian.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens, ...and a soil which, if it is virgin, is but virgin mould, the very dust of nature. What if we cannot read Rome or Greece, Etruria or Carthage, or Egypt or Babylon, on these; are our cliffs bare?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »