For the universe has three children, born at one time, which reappear, under different names, in every system of thought, whether ...they be called cause, operation, and effect; or, more poetically, Jove, Pluto, Neptune; or, theologically, the Father, the Spirit, and the Son; but which we will call here, the Knower, the Doer, and the Sayer. These stand respectively for the love of truth, for the love of good, and for the love of beauty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels... of the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The dullest soul cannot go upon such an expedition without some of the spirit of adventure; as if he had stolen the boat of Charon... and gone down the Styx on a midnight expedition in the realms of Pluto.... The silent navigator shoves his craft gently over the water, with a smothered pride and sense of benefaction, as if he were phosphor, or light-bringer, to these dusky realms, or some sister moon, blessing the spaces with her light. The waters, for a rod or two on either hand and several feet in depth, are lit up with more than noonday distinctness, and he enjoys the opportunity which so many have desired, for the roofs of a city are indeed raised, and he surveys the midnight economy of the fishes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »