“It has unfortunately now become a habit for so many generations, that it has almost passed into an instinct throughout the Jewish body, to rely upon the weapon of secrecy. Secret societies, a language kept as far as possible secret, the use of false names in order to hide secret movements, secret relations between various parts of the Jewish body: all these and other forms of secrecy have become the national method.” UseBodyFormOrderNamesLanguageSecretGenerationsMovementHabitWeaponsRelationMethodInstinctJewVariousRelySecrecyRely UponSecret Society Book:Belloc: A Biographical Anthology Source: Belloc: A Biographical Anthology
“I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at the bottom of their nature, their instincts, their sensations, their obtuse intelligence, assisted by organs less perfect than ours, there is a clouded, secret sentiment of this existence of a superior and primordial Being, from whom all emanates, and to whom all returns.” IfsSpeakPerfectSecretExistenceDogReturnBirdHorseInstinctBottomSuperiorsSensationsSentimentsOrgansElephantsBrutesCloudedEmanate Book:Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People Source: Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People