But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this that you call love to be... a sect or scion.... It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The hippie is the scion of surplus value. The dropout can only claim sanctity in a society which offers something to be dropped ou...t of--career, ambition, conspicuous consumption. The effects of hippie sanctimony can only be felt in the context of others who plunder his lifestyle for what they find good or profitable, a process known as rip-off by the hippie, who will not see how savagely he has pillaged intricate and demanding civilizations for his own parodic lifestyle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock,... And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature--change it rather; but The art itself is nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a le...sson to man! So are human beings, referred to the highest standard, the celestial fruit which they suggest and aspire to bear, browsed on by fate; and only the most persistent and strongest genius defends itself and prevails, sends a tender scion upward at last, and drops its perfect fruit on the ungrateful earth. Poets and philosophers and statesmen thus spring up in the country pastures, and outlast the hosts of unoriginal men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »