Far from marking the outer edge of the solar system, as those school-room maps so cavalierly imply, Pluto is barely one fifty-thousandth of the way.

The poor stuggle for riches, success, power; but those who achieve them die out. Life is, then a sort of squirrel cage or treadmill.

Rousseauist responsiveness and nurturance automatically flip over into their opposites.

What Oliphant has meant tot tribes is that states have predecessory rights but tribes do not. How did this happen west of the Mississippi, where there were clear tribal-nation predecessory rights established in treaties prior to the establishment of any status of statehood in the West?