“Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earthe.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) English Jacobean playwright
Act IV, scene 3. ("Sit tibi terra levis," familiar inscription).
The Tragedy of Bonduca (1611–14; published 1647)
“Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.”
Source: Alcestis (438 BC), l. 462
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Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
This illustrates the unsatisfactory character of the First-Cause argument.
"Is There a God?" (1952)
1950s
Thomas Wolfe book Of Time and the River
Book 1. This excerpt is also cited in a short story "Forever and the Earth" (1950) by Ray Bradbury.
Of Time and the River (1935)
Fakhruddin 'Iraqi (1213–1289) Persian philosopher
Lama’at (Divine Flashes)
“And let the fear and dread of you be upon all of the animals of the earth.”
Pope Gregory I (540–604) Pope from 590 to 604
Clearly, fear and dread were prescribed for the animals, but evidently it was forbidden among humans. By nature a human is superior to a brute animal, but not other humans.
Source: The Book of Pastoral Rule, p.62
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian
The Epitaph, St. 1 <br class="br"> Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
“Earth is the source of light.”
Dejan Stojanovic book The Sign and Its Children
"Earth and Light," p. 57
The Sign and Its Children (2000), Sequence: “The Sign and the Dream”
