I sometimes apprehend that our institutions may perish before we shall have discovered the most precious of the possibilities which they involve.

[I]t illustrates a profound but obscure idea of pagan ages, which is connected with the elementary glimpses of man into the abysses of his higher relations, and lurks mysteriously amongst what Milton so finely calls the dark foundations of our human nature. This notion, it is hard to express in modern phrase, for we have no idea exactly corresponding to it; but in Latin it was called piacularity.

The device that is to echo the characters should be optioned for echoplexing.

And I feel kind of zonky this morning. Maybe I needed the sleep.