An Artist's Business Is Only To See.

People Here Are Quite Struck Aback At Sunday's News Of The Capture Of New Orleans. It Took Them Three Days To Make Up Their Minds To Believe It. The Division Of American Had Become An Idea So Fixed That They Had About Shut Out All The Avenues To The Reception Of Any Other.

One Could Not Stay A Month Without Loving The Shabby Town

Politics Are A Very Unsatisfactory Game.

A Society In Stable Equilibrium Is-by Definition-one That Has No History And Wants No Historians.

The Spider-mind Acquires A Faculty Of Memory, And, With It, A Singular Skill Of Analysis And Synthesis, Taking Apart And Putting Together In Different Relations The Meshes Of Its Trap. Man Had In The Beginning No Power Of Analysis Or Synthesis Approaching That Of The Spider, Or Even Of The Honey-bee; But He Had Acute Sensibility To The Higher Forces.