Wife, Mother, Child, I know not. My affaires Are Seruanted to others[…]

In 1781 they framed Articles of Confederation,” and in 1789 the “Constitution of the United States of America, from which we have an Extract and Table, showing sixty-two per cent. Greco-Latin and thirty-eight Gotho-Germanic; whereas Ethelbert's Anglo-Saxon Code of A.D. 597, which is the oldest English writing, containse six per cent. Greco-Latin and ninety-four Gotho-Germanic; the code of Alfred the Great, A.D. 890, numbers six per cent. Greco-Latin and ninety-four Gotho-Germanic; and the Bill of Rights, 1688, counts sixty-three per cent. Greco-Latin, thirty-six Gotho-Germanic, and one per cent. Celtic.

If the world cannot be rational in my sense, in the sense of unconditional surrender, I refuse to grant that it is rational at all. It is pure incoherence, a chaos, a nulliverse, to whose haphazard sway I will not truckle.

The lawns and gardens had been scuffed away.