1900s, The Moral Equivalent of War (1906)
Context: Alexander's career was piracy pure and simple, nothing but an orgy of power and plunder, made romantic by the character of the hero. There was no rational purpose in it, and the moment he died his generals and governors attacked one another.
“Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?”
Epigraph; said of a history teacher who smashed a chair in his excitement when discussing the conqueror
The Inspector General (1836)
“[What do you think of music piracy?] Kills music! So, all that is pure emotion.”
From the interview «Carlo Prevale: il DJ che trasmette emozioni con le sue canzoni!» http://www.prevale.net/news-and-releases.html, Corriereinformazione.it
Original: (it) [Cosa pensi della pirateria musicale?] Uccide la musica! Quindi, tutto ciò che è pura emozione.
Source: From the interview by Federico Valenti, «Carlo Prevale: il DJ che trasmette emozioni con le sue canzoni!», Corriereinformazione.it, August 22, 2010; on Prevale.net http://www.prevale.net/news-and-releases.html.
The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems (1899), The Man With the Hoe (1898)
Context: Through this dread shape the suffering ages look;
Time's tragedy is in the aching stoop;
Through this dread shape humanity betrayed,
Plundered, profaned, and disinherited,
Cries protest to the Powers that made the world.
A protest that is also a prophecy.
"The Virtue of Simplicity," from Character Building: Being Addresses Delivered on Sunday Evenings to the Students of Tuskegee Institute (1902), p. 41 http://books.google.com/books?vid=0xSIrRTbnYkF0PDougzpPqX&id=DYYMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP9&lpg=PP9&dq=%22Character+Building:+Being+Addresses+Delivered%22#PPA41,M1
Jewish Virtual Library http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/AMenken.html
Source: Alexander the Great, 1973, p.128
www.csindy.com, Colorado Springs Independent, January 19, 2012, Congressman fights SOPA with porn, Bryce Crawford http://www.csindy.com/IndyBlog/archives/2012/01/19/congressman-fights-sopa-with-porn,
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“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.”
Appreciation, Postscript (1889)
1870s, The Unknown Loyal Dead (1871)
