Sermon preached at Mill-hill Chapel, Leeds on 28th August 1870.
#324, "Trite and True" (1999), collected in Post-DTWOF (2000).
Dykes to Watch Out For
“We are one, we are all brothers and sisters, but the people of the world do not know this.”
Donovan: "We are all one shining Being" (1998)
Context: We are one, we are all brothers and sisters, but the people of the world do not know this. So this was the teaching, but how do you teach it? As young people, John Lennon, George Harrison, myself, Carlos Santana and other spiritual seekers in pop music, we wanted to know the answer but we found a question: How do you convince the rest of the western world that they are ill, they are mentally ill, that they have a sickness and that they have lost the way? How do you teach that? You cannot teach that in the normal sense. You have to encourage a spiritual call, so we devoted ourselves to making songs which would have a spiritual call inside of them, hoping to awaken an awareness with this music. And other people in the arts felt the same...
“No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.”
Reply when asked if he would give his life to save a drowning brother, as quoted in Mathematical Models of Social Evolution : A Guide for the Perplexed (2007) by Richard McElreath and Robert Boyd, p. 82; as you share on average half your alleles with a brother and one-eighth with a cousin, Haldane was giving the number of relatives one would have to save to "break even".
Captain Reese.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Faith Beyond Resentment: Fragments Catholic and Gay (2001), "Jesus' fraternal relocation of God", p. 65.
"Oedipus Rex"
An Evening (Wasted) With Tom Lehrer (1959)
