X, 38
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
Context: In contemplating thyself never include the vessel which surrounds thee, and these instruments which are attached about it. For they are like an ax, differing only in this, that they grow to the body. For indeed there is no more use in these parts without the cause which moves and checks them than in the weaver's shuttle, and the writer's pen, and the driver's whip.
“Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”
“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
12.
Meditations Divine and Moral (1664)
The Shakers.
Artemus Ward, His Book http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/eafbin2/toccer-eaf?id=Weaf482&tag=public&data=/www/data/eaf2/private/texts&part=0 (1862)
"Palestine"; this was altered in later editions to: "No workman’s steel, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung".
need further publication dates
Variant: No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung;
Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.
Majestic silence!
"Words" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/words.html
Ariel (1965)
“So here the twins were laid low at Aeneas' hands,
down they crashed like lofty pine trees axed.”
V. 559–560 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Source: Validity of the single processor approach... (1967), p. 483
Source: The Laundry Files, The Fuller Memorandum (2010), Chapter 7, “Beer and Tea” (p. 111)
