If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town... steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city. There beneath you is the monster, stretching acre upon acre into the far distance. High over head hangs the stagnant pall of its fetid breath, reddened with light from myriad eyes endlessly, everywhere blinking. Thousands of acres of cellular tissue, the city's flesh outspreads layer upon layer, enmeshed by an intricate network of veins and arteries radiating into the gloom, and in them, with muffled, persistent roar, circulating as the blood circulates in your veins, is the almost ceaseless beat of the activity to whose necessities it all conforms. The poisonous waste is drawn from the system of this gigantic creature by infinitely ramifying, thread-like ducts, gathering at their sensitive terminals matter destructive of its life, hurrying it to millions of small intestines to be collected in turn by larger, flowing to the great sewers, on to the drainage canal, and finally to the ocean.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let there be no steps backward. A thought as to the manliness of persevering, of the want of manliness in yielding to depression, ...came to his rescue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forc...es--in nature, in society, in man himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreali...ty of self. And here the computer, a companion without emotional demands, offers a compromise. You can be a loner, but never alone. You can interact, but need never feel vulnerable to another person.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pa...le forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief ... for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is a Senate of equals, of men of individual honor and personal character, and of absolute independence. We know no masters, w...e acknowledge no dictators. This is a hall for mutual consultation and discussion; not an arena for the exhibition of champions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, rem...ained thirty-five for years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »