On the whole, it was not so impressive a scene as I might have expected. If I had found one body cast upon the beach in some lonel...y place, it would have affected me more. I sympathized rather with the winds and waves, as if to toss and mangle these poor human bodies was the order of the day. If this was the law of Nature, why waste any time in awe or pity? If the last day were come, we should not think so much about the separation of friends or the blighted prospects of individuals. I saw that corpses might be multiplied, as on the field of battle, till they no longer affected us in any degree as exceptions to the common lot of humanity. Take all the graveyards together, they are always the majority. It is the individual and private that demands our sympathy. A man can attend but one funeral in the course of this life, can behold but one corpse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men should not labor foolishly like brutes, but the brain and the body should always, or as much as possible, work and rest togeth...er, and then the work will be of such a kind that when the body is hungry the brain will be hungry also, and the same food will suffice for both; otherwise the food which repairs the waste energy of the overwrought body will oppress the sedentary brain, and the degenerate scholar will come to esteem all food vulgar, and all getting a living drudgery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system ... which is neve...r a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Kittering's brain. What we will he think when he resumes life in that body? Will he thank us for giving him a new lease on life? O...r will he object to finding his ego living in that human junk heap?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No body can conceive that nature ever intended to throw away a Newton upon the occupations of a crown. It would have been a prodig...ality for which even the conduct of providence might have been arraigned, had he been by birth annexed to what was so far below him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »