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“People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.”

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Thomas B. Macaulay, born on October 25, 1800, in Ireland, and died on December 28, 1859, in the United Kingdom, was a prominent political figure in the Victorian era. He served as the Secretary at War, playing a significant role in the British government. more

“In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that love is a greater power and more real than vengeance. The second proclaimed the earth to be a sphere revolving in its course around the sun. These affirmations were made in the face of all evidence sacred to the contrary.”

Firsts Made Two Real Earth Faces Courses Love Is Sun Greater Mankind Effects Evidence Sacred Contrary Spheres Affirmation Vengeance Revolving Greater Power Inversions Nazarene

Author:Louis Sullivan

“It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are strung as phantom beads all civilizations from the remotest past of record to that of the present day and hour.”

Self Dream Past Form Hours Secret Records Civilization Mass Thread Phantoms Present Day Beads Inverted

Author:Louis Sullivan

“The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and internal suppression of the life urge of the only one - of its faith in human sacrifice as a means of salvation.”

Men Humans Mean Self Sacrifice Masters Concepts Salvation Slave Core Assumption Internals Urges Preservation Suppression Self Preservation

Author:Louis Sullivan

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