Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 7 (p. 133)
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Source: Europe and the People Without History, 1982, Chapter 11, The Movement of Commodities, p. 316.
1880s, Plea for Free Speech in Boston (1880)
“Thus the sum of things is ever being renewed, and mortal creatures live dependent one upon another. Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.”
Sic rerum summa novatur
semper, et inter se mortales mutua vivunt.
augescunt aliae gentes, aliae minuuntur,
inque brevi spatio mutantur saecla animantum
et quasi cursores vitai lampada tradunt.
Sic rerum summa novatur
semper, et inter se mortales mutua vivunt.
augescunt aliae gentes, aliae minuuntur,
inque brevi spatio mutantur saecla animantum
et quasi cursores vitae lampada tradunt.
Book II, line 75 (tr. Rouse)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
“When a species fixates on the supernatural, it ceases to mature.”
Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 6 (p. 118)
“To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.”
Letter to the president of Congress, Heights of Harlem (24 September 1776)
1770s
Context: To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff. Men just dragged from the tender scenes of domestic life - unaccustomed to the din of arms - totally unacquainted with every kind of military skill, which being followed by a want of confidence in themselves when opposed to troops regularly trained, disciplined, and appointed, superior in knowledge, and superior in arms, makes them timid and ready to fly from their own shadows.
Letter to F. W. Cobden (16 August 1842), quoted in John Morley, The Life of Richard Cobden (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1905), p. 299.
1840s
“Let us not depend upon the world for pleasure.”
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