In the latter part of the seventeenth century, according to the historian of Dunstable, "Towns were directed to erect 'a cage' nea...r the meeting-house, and in this all offenders against the sanctity of the Sabbath were confined." Society has relaxed a little from its strictness, one would say, but I presume that there is not less religion than formerly. If the ligature is found to be loosened in one part, it is only drawn the tighter in another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I go into a museum and see the mummies wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the lives of men began to need reform as l...ong ago as when they walked the earth. I come out into the streets, and meet men who declare that the time is near at hand for the redemption of the race. But as men lived in Thebes, so do they live in Dunstable today.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »