]> Two underachievers offering stripped-down HTML versions of popular public domain literary works, suitable for viewing on handheld computing devices. en-us http://www.pluckerbooks.com/ Information found on Pluckerbooks.com is free for personal use. curtis@pluckerbooks.com curtis@pluckerbooks.com Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:57:39 -0500 http://www.pluckerbooks.com/images/logo.png http://www.pluckerbooks.com/ ebooks,handheld computing PHP4 http://backend.userland.com/rss 1440 http://www.pluckerbooks.com/quote/64 Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse. http://www.pluckerbooks.com/quote/64 http://www.pluckerbooks.com/quote/63 Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous. Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species--if separate species we be--for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world. http://www.pluckerbooks.com/quote/63 http://www.pluckerbooks.com/quote/62 The laws exist, but who sets hand to them? No one; because the shepherd who precedes Can ruminate, but cleaveth not the hoof; Wherefore the people that perceives its guide Strike only at the good for which it hankers, Feeds upon that, and farther seeketh not. Clearly canst thou perceive that evil guidance The cause is that has made the world depraved, And not that nature is corrupt in you. http://www.pluckerbooks.com/quote/62 http://www.pluckerbooks.com/quote/61 Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost. http://www.pluckerbooks.com/quote/61 http://www.pluckerbooks.com/quote/60 All hope abandon, ye who enter in! http://www.pluckerbooks.com/quote/60 http://www.pluckerbooks.com/quote/59 To keep the country upon the edge of war because of some fancied contingency, and to depart into a path of danger for the sole purpose of greatly daring and bravely facing whatever peril may come, involve the overthrow of all this country has hitherto stood for, and that through a spirit of boyish bravado. Nothing more absurd has ever occurred in the history of any nation. http://www.pluckerbooks.com/quote/59 http://www.pluckerbooks.com/quote/58 Every voluntary act of a man's life is either virtuous or vicious. That is to say, it is either in accordance, or in conflict, with those natural laws of matter and mind, on which his physical, mental, and emotional health and well-being depend. In other words, every act of his life tends, on the whole, either to his happiness, or to his unhappiness. No single act in his whole existence is indifferent. http://www.pluckerbooks.com/quote/58 http://www.pluckerbooks.com/quote/57 Everything that is said to be logical is somewhere out of agreement with something, and everything that is said to be illogical is somewhere in agreement with something. http://www.pluckerbooks.com/quote/57 http://www.pluckerbooks.com/quote/56 Conservatism is our opposition. But I am in considerable sympathy with conservatives. I am often lazy, myself. http://www.pluckerbooks.com/quote/56 http://www.pluckerbooks.com/quote/55 War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. http://www.pluckerbooks.com/quote/55