Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.

It's a peculiarity of the Norwegian culture and of the English and American, too, that men are not supposed to cry. Stiff upper lip and all that. But the Vikings cried like women in public or privately. They soaked their beards with tears and were not one bit ashamed about it. Yet, they were as quick to draw their swords as they were to shed tears. So, what's all this crap about men having to hold in their sorrow and grief and disappointment?

Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.

Give us power, give us light To holdall love within our breast's small space.

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.

By this he meant that all events, therefore, all men, are interconnected in an unbreakable web. What man does, no matter how seemingly insignificant, vibrates through the strands and affects every man.