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The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry

This book delves into the rich history and cultural significance of the White Hills, offering insights into the legends associated with the region, its unique landscape, and the poetry inspired by its natural wonders. more

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Thomas Starr King
Thomas Starr King

Thomas Starr King, born on December 17, 1824, was a renowned orator and writer in the United States. His career and writings were primarily focused during the American Civil War, where he actively participated in the anti-slavery movement. King's speeches and writings had a profound impact on many people during that time. more

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“Madame Nature allows no dangerous classes, in the modern sense. She has, doubtless for some wise reason, no mercy for the weak. She rewards each organism according to its works; and if anything grows too weak or stupid to take care of itself, she gives it its due deserts by letting it die and disappear.”

“Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never discover any inventions more beautiful, more simple or more practical than those of nature, because in her inventions there is nothing lacking and nothing superfluous; and she makes use of no counterpoise when she constructs the limbs of animals in such a way as to correspond to the motion of their bodies, but she puts into them the soul of the body.”