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The mass of men lead lives of quite
desperation. What is called resignation
is confirmed desperation. From the
desperate city you go into the desperate
country, and have to console yourself
with the bravery of minks and
mu s k r a t s. A s t e r e o t y p e d b u t
unconscious despair is concealed
even under what are called the games
and amusements of mankind. There
is no play in them, for this comes
after work. But it is a characteristic of
wisdom not to do desperate things. (p.
2, par. 4)
The king has “waged cruel war against human
nature itself, violating it’s most sacred rights
of life & liberty in the persons of a distant
people who never offended him, captivating
& carrying them into slavery in another
hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in
their transportation thither […] determined
to keep open a market where MEN should be
bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative
for suppressing every legislative attempt to
prohibit or to restrain this execrable
commerce”
“With the morals of the people, their
industry also is destroyed. For in a warm
climate, no man will labour for himself who
can make another labour for him. This is
so true, that of the proprietors of slaves a
very small proportion indeed are even
seen to labour. Indeed, I tremble for my
country when I reflect that God is just: that
his justice cannot sleep fore ever: that
considering numbers, nature and natural
means only, a revolution of the wheel of
fortune, an exchange of situation, is
among possible events: that it may
become probably by supernatural
inference”
We hold these truths to be selfevident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among
these are Life, Liberty and the
pursuit of Happiness.--That to
secure these rights, Governments
are instituted among Men,
deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed,
Monticello, Jefferson’s plantation
“Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his
justice cannot sleep fore ever: that considering numbers, nature
and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of
fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible
events: that it may become probably by supernatural
inference”
“Iamnotnowwri:ngatrea:se,butsimply
prefacingasomewhatpeculiarnarra:veby
observa:onsverymuchatrandom”
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“The necessary knowledge is that of what to observe.” (198)
Observations should not be limited to the game, but rather he must
look at “things external to the game. He examines his partner, his
opponent, he looks at the cards, he analyzes everyone’s behavior
through a couple of rounds and then, he is able to read the situation
and make his move” (198)
“I wish to impress upon your understanding the very extraordinary –
the almost praeternatural character of that agility which could have
accomplished it” (218)
“the peculiar voice, that unusual agility, and that startling absence of
motive in a murder so singularly atrocious as this – let us glance at
the butchery itself. Here is a woman strangled to death by manual
strength, and thrust up a chimney head downward […] In the
manner of thrusting the corpse up the chimney, you will admit that
there was something excessible outré – something altogether
irreconcilable with our common notions of human action, even
when we suppose the actors the most depraved of men” (219)
“‘Dupin!’ I said, completely unnerved; ‘this hair is most unusual-this
is no human hair […] This,’ I said, ‘is the mark of no human
hand’” (221)
* “It was a minute anatomical and generally descriptive account of
the large fulvous Ourang-Outang of the East Indian Islands. The
gigantic stature, the prodigious strength and activity, the wild
ferocity, and the imitative propensities of these mammalia are
sufficiently well known to all” (221)
ManualofHumanAnatomy
Dr.Knox,London,1843
(MurdersintheRueMorgue,1841)
Pauline Hopkins 1859 – 1930
1877 End of Reconstruction/Rise of Jim
Crow
1900 “Talma Gordon” published
1901 Becomes Editor of Colored American
Magazine (quits when its’ taken over by
Washington forces)
1900-1915 DuBois/Washington Debate
“if we are not ready to receive and assimilate the new material which will be brought to
mingle with our pure Anglo-Saxon stream, we should call a halt in our expansion policy”
“We may make laws, but laws are but straws in the hands of Omnipotence [….] And no
man may combat fate. Given a man, propinquity, opportunity, fascinating femininity, and
there you are. Black, white, green, yellow – nothing will prevent intermarriage. Position,
wealth, family, friends – all sink into significance before the God-implanted instinct that
made Adam awakening from a deep sleep and finding the woman beside him, accept Eve
as bone of his bone; he cared not nor questioned whence she came. So it is with the sons
of Adam ever since, through the law of heredity which makes us all one common family.
And so it will be with us in our reformation of this old Republic” (882)