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I never see a brilliant economic thesis expounding, as though they were geometrical theorems, the mathematics of price movements, that I do not recall Schiller's dictum: 'Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd he at once becomes a blockhead.'— Information Processing
Any Amazon purchase (used or new) that clicks through this blog helps to keep the Cosmos expounding:— One Cosmos
As the later writers on the Law of Nature have always been anxious to maintain that private property was in some sense sanctioned by the system which they were expounding, the hypothesis that an enemy's property is res nullius has seemed to them perverse and shocking, and they are careful to stigmatise it as a mere fiction of jurisprudence.— Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society
One who was such a sinner, such a servant of Satan, so fit for hell, so deserving of everlasting destruction, was not merely cleansed from sin and made a child of God through faith in the Lord Jesus, and thus fitted for heaven, and did not merely receive the sure promise that he should have eternal glory; but was also called unto, and, in a measure, qualified for the expounding of the word of God.— A Narrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself. Second Part
Lilly, at the head of his star-expounding friends, not only formally replied to, but persecuted Gataker annually in his predictions, and even struck at his ghost, when beyond the grave.— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)

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