The most cogent remarks are those which deal with the fact of the Tramway projectors having misrepresented the scheme when negociating for the purchase of the land,- with the non-inclusion of Pao-shan in the limits of the Treaty port of Shanghai,- and the illegality of making a railway in any country without the permission of the legislature.

Doves were culticly protected; great towers were built for them in which they could nest; they were called columbaria (columba is the Latin word for dove).

Precepts should be so finely wrought together […] that no coarse seam may discover where they join.

It is imagination out of which choice arises, and the nature of choice is inevitably closely linked with the uncertainty, or - to use Shacklean terminology - the unknowledge of the outcome of decision-making.