The majority trotted out a parade of horribles in which judicial line-drawing concerning accommodation would displace legitimate democratic choices.

the minute Bodies and smallest sort of Creatures about us, which have been by them [the ancients] but sleightly and perfunctorily described, as being the disregarded pieces and huslement of the Creation

And yet this Error and Superstition is so deeply rooted in the minds of the Papists, that there is scarcely any way left to disabuse and unhoodwink them, so fatally have their Priests and Monks enchanted them.

The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.