I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a light,... as would render it eligible for human kind, that there should be such a state. These fine models of religion are the mere product of philosophy. For as death lies between the eye and the prospect of futurity, that event is so shocking to nature, that it must throw a gloom on all the regions which lie beyond it; and suggest to the generality of mankind the idea of Cerberus and Furies; devils, and torrents of fire and brimstone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculia...r nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Altarwise by owl-light in the half-way house The gentleman lay graveward with his furies;... Abaddon in the hangnail cracked from Adam, And, from his fork, a dog among the fairies, The atlas-eater with a jaw for news, Bit out the mandrake with to-morrow's scream.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is something antique, even, in his style of treating his subject, reminding us that Heroes and Demi-gods, Fates and Furies, ...still exist; the common man is nothing to him, but after death the hero is apotheosized and has a place in heaven, as in the religion of the Greeks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What climbs the stair? Nothing that common women ponder on... If you are worth my hope! Neither Content Nor satisfied Conscience, but that great family Some ancient famous authors misrepresent, The Proud Furies each with her torch on high.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Medusa, come, we'll turn him into stone," they shouted all together glaring down, "how wrong we were to let off Theseus lightly!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels abo...ut a bad man turned good by a tractor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »