Source: The Authorised Daily Prayer Book, Centenary Edition 1990, p. 17.
“Love is anterior to life,
Posterior to death,
Initial of creation, and
The exponent of breath.”
Love, p. 167
Collected Poems (1993)
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (2014), p.106.
Opening line.
Dianetics : The Modern Science of Mental Health (1950)
“It is a more rational belief that man may become a brute than that a brute may become a man;”
The facts and fancies of Mr. Darwin (1862)
Context: It is a more rational belief that man may become a brute than that a brute may become a man; and it is an easier faith that plants and animals may dwindle down into an elemental atom, than that this atom should embrace in its organization, and evolve, all the noble forms of vegetable, animal, and intellectual life.
Source: 1860s, Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863), Ch.2, p. 132
Context: Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge, that Man, is in substance and in structure, one with the brutes; for, he alone possesses the marvellous endowment of intelligible and rational speech, whereby, in the secular period of his existence, he has slowly accumulated and organized the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of every individual life in other animals; so that now he stands raised upon it as on a mountain top, far above the level of his humble fellows, and transfigured from his grosser nature by reflecting, here and there, a ray from the infinite source of truth.
Karmas and Diseases, Divine Life Society, http://dlshq.org/download/karmadisease.htm (1959)
Gen. Edward Cummings, in Pt. 1, Ch. 11
The Naked and the Dead (1948)
