Source: Survivals and New Arrivals (1929), Ch. III Survivals (iii) The "Wealth and Power" Argument
Oxford Companion to Children's Literature: "Charles Hamilton" (pages 235-7)
“Too much philosophy makes men mad.”
Page 21.
The Noonday Devil (1987)
“Commerce unites men and make them; therefore it is fatal to despotic power.”
Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon's War Maxims: With His Social and Political Thoughts (1804-15), Gale & Polden, (1899) p. 150
“You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality”
Du wolltest die Philosophie zerstören, und die Poesie, um Raum zu gewinnen für die Religion und Moral, die du verkanntest: aber du hast nichts zerstören können als dich selber.
“Selected Ideas (1799-1800)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (1968) #90
The Talented Tenth http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=174, published as the second chapter of The Negro Problem, a collection of articles by African Americans (New York: James Pott and Company, 1903)
that was my objective. I knew the [reader] was never happy all the time. You take the Thing, he’d knock out 50 guys at a time and win — then maybe he’d sit down and kind of reflect on it: “Maybe I hurt somebody or maybe we could have done it some other way” like a human being would think, not like a monster. In other books the guy would knock out the gangs and that would be the end of it. You would see the guys in jail, and that’s it. Or it would say, “Wait until next week.”
Source: 1990, Gary Groth interview
