“The victory of vivisection marks a great advance in the triumph of ruthless, non-moral utilitarianism over the old world of ethical law; a triumph in which we, as well as animals, are already the victims, and of which Dachau and Hiroshima mark the more recent achievements.”
"Vivisection" (1947), p. 228
God in the Dock (1970)
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“[History] hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.”
The History of the World (1614), Preface

Source: Discipleship (1937), Revenge, p. 142

Act II, scene vii.
The Regicide (1749)

Comments on the North American Events (1862)
Context: Lincoln is not the product of a popular revolution. This plebeian, who worked his way up from stone-breaker to Senator in Illinois, without intellectual brilliance, without a particularly outstanding character, without exceptional importance-an average person of good will, was placed at the top by the interplay of the forces of universal suffrage unaware of the great issues at stake. The new world has never achieved a greater triumph than by this demonstration that, given its political and social organisation, ordinary people of good will can accomplish feats which only heroes could accomplish in the old world!

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), pp. 234-235
Arnold Tustin (1955) in: Control Engineering. Vol. 2, Nr. 1-6. p. 11