Society and the World

Mammon led them on,

And when night

First Moloch, horrid king besmeared with blood

New Presbyter is but old Priest writ large.

New Presbyter is but old Priest writ large.

For what can war, but endless war still breed?

At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue:

The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.

The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.

But that two-handed engine at the door

But that two-handed engine at the door

Towered cities please us then,

How charming is divine philosophy!

He that has light within his own clear breast

Money couldn’t buy friends but you got a better class of enemy.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

This is Red Hook, not Sicily … This is the gullet of New York swallowing the tonnage of the world.

This is Red Hook, not Sicily … This is the gullet of New York swallowing the tonnage of the world.

He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back—that’s an earthquake … A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.

He’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

He’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Justice denied in Massachusetts.

Justice denied in Massachusetts.