If we eliminated the dog from our lives, nothing much would happen to our ecology. Independent of man, the dog is a vandal. With m...an, he does a little sheep-herding, a little watch-dogging. He helps law enforcement officers control the troublesome ghetto-dwellers and protest marchers. He sniffs out "hash" and "grass." He goes out on weekends and helps man murder other forms of life for pleasure. But mostly he is just an adjunct to man's ego.... The cat owes man nothing. Some experts estimate that there is one homeless cat managing on its own for every one with a home, which makes a total cat population in the U.S. of more than fifty million. That means the largest nonhuman animal population in the nation, short of rodents, whose number is beyond estimate. Eliminate cats from our ecology and, in a matter of weeks, we would be overrun by rodents.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If God causes man to be sick, sickness must be good, and its opposite, health, must be evil, for all that He makes is good and wil...l stand forever. If the transgression of God's law produces sickness, it is right to be sick; and we cannot if we would, and should not if we could, annul the decrees of wisdom. It is the transgression of a belief of mortal mind, not of a law of matter nor of divine Mind, which causes the belief of sickness. The remedy is Truth, not matter,--the truth that disease is unreal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has been pervaded ...and dissolved by a thought; that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul, and recognised itself in their harmony, that is, seized their law. In physics, when this is attained, the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars, and carries centuries of observation in a single formula.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But, though light-headed man forget, Remembering Matter pays her debt:... Still, through her motes and masses, draw Electric thrills and ties of Law, Which bind the strengths of Nature wild To the conscience of the child.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it.... He dire...cts angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In astronomy, the law of gravitation is plainly better worth knowing than the position of a particular planet on a particular nigh...t, or even on every night throughout a year. There are in the law a splendour and simplicity and sense of mastery which illuminate a mass of otherwise uninteresting details.... But in history the matter is far otherwise.... Historical facts, many of them, have an intrinsic value, a profound interest on their own account, which makes them worthy of study, quite apart from any possibility of linking them together by means of causal laws.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When priests are more in word than matter; When brewers mar their malt with water;... When nobles are their tailors' tutors, No heretics burned but wenches' suitors, Then shall the realm of Albion Come to great confusion. When every case in law is right, No squire in debt, nor no poor knight; When slanders do not live in tongues, Nor cutpurses come not to throngs; When usurers tell their gold i' the field, And bawds and whores do churches build, Then comes the time, who lives to see 't, That going shall be used with feet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of matter at and for our c...onvenience, but a successful life knows no law.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Untidy is perhaps too mild a word; slut would be a better one. Being a slut is of course partly a matter of bad luck as well as ba...d management: things just do boil over oftener, fuses blow sooner, front doors bang leaving us outside in our dressing-gowns; but it goes deeper than bad luck. We are not actually incapable of cleaning our homes: but we are liable to reorganize instead of scrub; we do our cleaning in a series of periodic assaults. A mother-in- law has only to appear over the horizon and we act like the murderer in a Ray Bradbury story who kept on wiping the finger prints off the fruit at the bottom of the bowl. We work in a frenzy; but ... the frenzy usually subsides before we have got everything back into the cupboards again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Shears: You mean, you intend to uphold the letter of the law, no matter what it costs? Colonel Nicholson: Without law, Comman...der, there is no civilization. Shears: That's just my point. Here, there is no civilization. Colonel Nicholson: Then perhaps we have the opportunity to introduce it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »