Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? "And here is my good big centipede!" If such a... man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They made on me the impression, not of many individuals, but of one vast centipede of a man, good for all sorts of pulling down; a...nd why not then for some kinds of building up? If men could combine thus earnestly, and patiently, and harmoniously to some really worthy end, what might they not accomplish? They now put their hands, and partially perchance their heads together, and the result is that they are the imperfect tools of an imperfect and tyrannical government. But if they could put their hands and heads and hearts and all together, such a cooperation and harmony would be the very end and success for which government now exists in vain,--a government, as it were, not only with tools, but stock to trade with.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »