In a famous passage from Sophocles' drama, the Greek princess, Antigone, defends her disobedience of Creone's harsh decree that her brother's body should not be buried, by invoking The unwritten laws of God that know not change.

It will be convenient to have a name for the ideas which are esteemed at any time for their acceptability, and it should be a term that emphasizes this predictability. I shall refer to these ideas henceforth as the conventional wisdom.

It's an old-fashioned company, with parking spaces and other perks doled out on the basis of seniority.

As to my coming to America, I cannot say anything about it at this time owing to the state of my family, but still I have as good an intention to come as ever I had, but what we have come through at this time has rendered us a great deal unabler for it than we were last year, but still if our family suffers all stout, I hope that we will be able yet to see that land, and John our son has offered to assist us in playing for a farm if we can have it in our power to go to America.