The War Prayer : THE WAR PRAYER BY MARK TWAIN [1904] It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering;...
Notkill : THE TEN Commandments were made for man alone. We should think it strange if they had been made for "all "the animals. We should say "Thou shalt not kill" is too general, too sweeping. It includes the field mouse and the butterfly. They "can't "kill. And it includes the tiger, which can't "help "it...
Thefly : HOW OFTEN we are moved to admit the intelligence exhibited in both the designing and the execution of some of His works. Take the fly, for instance. The planning of the fly was an application of pure intelligence, morals not being concerned. Not one of us could have planned the fly, not one of us...
Letters From The Earth : The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before him rose the black night of Space, like a wall. His mighty bulk towered rugged and mountain-like into the zenith, and His divine head blazed there like...
