Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by t...he census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We here overtook two Italian boys, who had waded thus far down the Cape through the sand, with their organs on their backs, and we...re going on to Provincetown. What a hard lot, we thought, if the Provincetown people should shut their doors against them! Whose yard would they go to next? Yet we concluded that they had chosen wisely to come here, where other music than that of the surf must be rare. Thus the great civilizer sends out his emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and lighthouse of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framed... on the ratio of owners and of owning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I came as census-taker to the waste To count the people in it and found none,... None in the hundred miles, none in the house....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The melancholy of having to count souls Where they grow fewer and fewer every year... Is extreme where they shrink to none at all. It must be I want life to go on living.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They were not on the table with their elbows. They were not sleeping in the shelves of bunks.... I saw no men there and no bones of men there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
statistic: the us bureau of missing persons reports that in 1968 over 100,000 people disappeared... leaving no solid clues nor traceonly a space in the lives of their friends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If this bureau had a prayer for use around horse parks, it would go something like this: Lead us not among bleeding-hearts to whom... horses are cute or sweet or adorable, and deliver us from horse-lovers. Amen.... With that established, let's talk about the death of Seabiscuit the other night. It isn't mawkish to say, there was a racehorse, a horse that gave race fans as much pleasure as any that ever lived and one that will be remembered as long and as warmly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men mar...ried them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »