...same. First barbarism, simplicity, and advancement ; then refinement, corruption, and decay — decay at once hopeless and eternal. When we turn to the...natural law, to provide for the onward progress of man. No one in his senses will attempt to deny the necessity that exists for preserving inviolate the rights...

...become a man, the stream a river, the twig a tree of which the man is gathering the fruit ; and we read The web of life is a mingled yarn, Good and ill together. Then comes Atropos, severing with her fateful shears the old man's life thread as he pauses beneath...