Would the departed never nowhere nohow reappear? Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, ...beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space, passing from land to land, among peoples, amid events. Somewhere imperceptibly he would hear and somehow reluctantly, suncompelled, obey the summons of recall. Whence, disappearing from the constellation of the Northern Crown he would somehow reappear reborn above delta in the constellation of Cassiopeia and after incalculable eons of peregrination return an estranged avenger, a wreaker of justice on malefactors, a dark crusader, a sleeper awakened, with financial resources (by supposition) surpassing those of Rothschild or the silver king.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here was a little of everything in a small compass to satisfy the wants and the ambition of the woods,... but there seemed to me, ...as usual, a preponderance of children's toys,--dogs to bark, and cats to mew, and trumpets to blow, where natives there hardly are yet. As if a child born into the Maine woods, among the pine cones and cedar berries, could not do without such a sugar-man or skipping-jack as the young Rothschild has.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it; and, necessarily, ...every cause contributes some assistance to the effect's existence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be though...t.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I... will not understand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Therefore even the fool agrees that that than which a greater cannot be thought exists in the understanding, because he understand...s this when he hears it and whatever is understood is in the understanding. And certainly that than which a greater cannot be thought cannot exist only in the understanding. For if it exists only in the understanding, then it can be thought to exist in reality, which is greater. Therefore, if that than which a greater cannot be thought is in the understanding only, then that than which a greater cannot be thought can be thought to be greater. But certainly this is impossible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »