Political dissent was brutally suppressed.

Yet he, too, knew all their songs, and sang them along the roads roisterously.

PROP[OSITION] VI. One substance cannot be produced by another substance. ¶ Demonst[ration]. In the preceding proposition we have seen that there cannot in the nature of things be two Substances of the same attribute, or that they have anything in common (by Prop. II.); and so (by Prop. III.) one cannot be the cause of, or be produced by, another: q. e. d.

Although Beatrix considered them 'very scribblesome', she took note of the boy's interest and enthusiasm.