How Slow The Shadow Creeps: But When

If Antiquity Be The Only Test Of Nobility, Then Cheese Is A Very Noble Thing ... The Lineage Of Cheese Is Demonstrably Beyond All Record.

The Catholic Church Is An Institution I Am Bound To Hold Divine - But For Unbelievers A Proof Of Its Divinity Might Be Found In The Fact That No Merely Human Institution Conducted With Such Knavish Imbecility Would Have Lasted A Fortnight.

Since It Is To The Advantage Of The Wage-payer To Pay As Little As Possible, Even Well-paid Labor Will Have No More Than What Is Regarded In A Particular Society As The Reasonable Level Of Subsistence. The Lower Ranks Of Labor Will Commonly Have Less, And If Public Relief Were Afforded Even Up To The Wage-level Of The Lowest Ranks Of Labor, That Relief Would Compete In The Labor Market; Check Or Dry Up The Supply Of Wage-labor. It Would Tend To Render The Performance Of Work By The Wage-earner Redundant.

I Put My Pencil Upon The Paper, Doubtfully, And Drew Little Lines, Considering My Theme. But I Would Not Long Hesitate In This Manner, For I Knew That All Creation Must Be Chaos First, And Then Gestures In The Void Before It Can Cast Out The Completed Thing.

Will Not Perhaps The Temporal Power Of Islam Return And With It The Menace Of An Armed Mohammedan World, Which Will Shake Off The Domination Of Europeans - Still Nominally Christian - And Reappear As The Prime Enemy Of Our Civilization? The Future Always Comes As A Surprise, But Political Wisdom Consists In Attempting At Least Some Partial Judgment Of What That Surprise May Be. And For My Part I Cannot But Believe That A Main Unexpected Thing Of The Future Is The Return Of Islam.