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Alas! Can We Ring The Bells Backward? Can We Unlearn The Arts That Pretend To Civilize, And Then Burn The World?
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Alas! can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that
pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of
science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?
-- Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
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I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
-- Charles Lamb...
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public school
omorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church....
Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in....
Natural selection won't matter soon, not anywhere as much as conscious selection.
We will civilize and alter ourselves to suit our ideas of what we can be....
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
Charles Lamb ['Essays of Elia', 1823]...
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct race
hen men who borrow, and the men who lend. -- Charles Lamb (1775-1834)...
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Having found them, we shall then hate them for it. -- Emersons' Law of Contrarine...
Emersons' Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Having found them, we shall then hate them for it....
Emerson's Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Having found them, we shall then hate them for it....