We cannibals must help these Christians.
Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.
When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board a fast-sailing,never-sinking world-frigate, of which God was the shipwright; and she is but one craft in a Milky-Way fleet, of which God is the Lord High Admiral.
Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.