“And is it a wonder that all individual life is extinguished?”
Cassandra (1860)
Context: At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this? We go somewhere where we are not wanted and where we don't want to go. What else is conventional life? Passivity when we want to be active. So many hours spent every day in passively doing what conventional life tells us, when we would so gladly be at work.
And is it a wonder that all individual life is extinguished?
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Florence Nightingale81
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James Barr (1924–2006) British bible scholar
Letter to David C.C. Watson, 23 April 1984. Quoted from https://answersingenesis.org/ https://answersingenesis.org/genesis/oxford-hebrew-scholar-professor-james-barr-meaning-of-genesis/<br><br><br> link https://web.archive.org/web/20170612180930/http://members.iinet.com.au:80/~sejones/barrlett.html Source: The authenticity of this letter is not verified yet.
Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer
Source: Fallen Leaves (2014), Ch. 5 : On Death
“Does not, as fire dropped upon water is immediately extinguished and cooled, so, does not, I say, a false accusation, when brought in contact with a most pure and holy life, instantly fall and become extinguished?”
Nonne, ut ignis in aquam conjectus, continuo restinguitur et refrigeratur, sic refervens falsum crimen in purissimam et castissimam vitam collatum, statim concidit et extinguitur?
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Cicero, Pro Roscio Comodeo Oratio, 17; C.D. Yonge translation
Michael Boulter (1942) British paleobiologist
Extinction: Evolution and the End of Man (2002).
Kirby Page (1890–1957) American clergyman
"The Commercial Motive" ibid.
