The Something in this case is building Buddhist temples and erecting pagodas and Buddha figures all over the country so as to stabilize the country and to unpacify the rivers and mountains.

For this likewise must be taken into the account, that some remarkable accident, or the peculiar interest one district has above others, or the great share it bore in the revolution of the state, frequently gives occasion to new-name a country, or to extend the name of one district to its neighbouring provinces.

Later on, in America, at the simple and sweet family hearth, when Charles Lindbergh will sit opposite his mother, flanked by his favorite kitten, and will attack the delicious pie that was promised him from afar as a first recompense for his victory, the poung triumphator in closing his eyes will perhaps still see and hear the hurtling mob and the thunderous bravos.

[A]nyone saying now that humans are a towering inferno of irrationality ought to be challenged, and aggressively so.