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It looks very much like murder; and, even at the best of times, a battle-field reminds us of Cain and Abel. Brother slaughters brother, and the conqueror rejoices and describes his sanguinary work as "a glorious victory." In the war between the English and French settlers in America, a new and atrocious feature was introduced.
A scornful, fateful smile passed over his face. "'Hast thou never killed a man? said Kaid. 'Never, said he 'by the goodness of God, never! The voice of Him of Galilee, the hand of Cain, the craft of Jael. But God is with the patient."
The curse of Cain Light on his head who pierced thy innocent breast And scared the angel soul that was its earthly guest. Of course the vogue of such a conception owes most to Shelley.
It was not until the next day that Cain ventured to run again to the southward to procure at one of the keys the water so much required. At last it was obtained, but with difficulty and much loss of time, from the scantiness of the supply, and they again made sail for the Caicos.
Suddenly he felt himself utterly tired, relaxed. Strong nervous reaction set in. What had all this scene, this tragedy been about? And then in another instant was that sense of the ridiculous again clamoring to be heard. He the man of thirty-five confessing himself, making a tragic scene, playing Manfred or Cain to this adorable, half-fledged creature, whom he had known five days!
Precisely this peculiarity seemed to give the smith pleasure, and without his realizing it, his sympathy for Cain grew; perhaps it also grew from the consciousness that he himself had put upon the innocent child a mark of shame which probably he would never be able to shake off.
They have promised, unless we defend ourselves, to snatch our souls from us and fashion them afresh into souls which shall bear the stamp of their own image. Of their souls we have seen samples; they date back to the dark ages the souls of Cain, Judas and Cæsar Borgia were not unlike them.
Rev. Leighton Parks, D. D., in a sermon at the Diocesan Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Boston, May, 1895. Genesis iv. 9. Cain was the first philosophical individualist; the first "laissez-faire" economist. When God asked: "Where is Abel?" Cain answered: "What responsibility have I for him? My business is to take care of myself. Am I my brother's keeper?"
It is no ignoble mood, and it was a most inevitable product of the mental and social conditions of Western Europe at the close of the eighteenth century. Everlasting protest, impetuous energy of will, melancholy and despondent reaction; this is the revolutionary course. Cain and Conrad; then Manfred and Lara and Harold.
Even so late as the 16th century, the common record of marriages in the old German Chronicles was "A. BOUGHT B." The Hebrew word translated buy, is, like other words, modified by the nature of the subject to which it is applied. She named him Cain, that is, bought. So in Isa. xi. 11. So Ps. lxxviii. 54. He brought them to this mountain which his right hand had purchased, i.e. gotten. Jer. xiii. 4.
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