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Matter is, indeed, movable by no fine persuasions: brutely faithful to its own law, it cares no more for AEschylus than for the tortoise that breaks his crown; the purpose of a cross for the sweetest saint it serves no less willingly than any other purpose, stiffly holding out its arms there, about its own wooden business, neither more nor less, centred utterly upon itself.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862