“I think while zealots fast and frown, And fight for two or seven, That there are fifty roads to town, And rather more to Heaven.” ThinkingTwoReligionFightingHeavenTownsSevenFiftyZealot Book:The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed Source: The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed
“Remembering that Eratosthenes of Cyrene, employing mathematical theories and geometrical methods, discovered from the course of the sun, the shadows cast by an equinoctial gnomon, and the inclination of the heaven that the circumference of the earth is two hundred and fifty-two thousand stadia, that is, thirty-one million five hundred thousand paces.” TwoEarthRememberCoursesHeavenMillionsSunFiveTheoryThousandHundredShadowMethodCastsMathematicalThirtyFiftyPaceInclinationEmploying Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“We must, therefore, coolly and objectively adopt the standpoint that it can certainly not be the intention of Heaven to give one people fifty times as much land and soil in this world as another.” PeopleWorldGivingHeavenLandThis WorldIntentionSoilFiftyStandpoint Book:Mein Kampf Source: Mein Kampf