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Updated: July 5, 2025
'Instantaneous riddance of thee from face of earth. 'Good! Now, said the Demon, 'did you suppose I was to be trapped into a fight? No doubt you wish to become a saint, and have everybody talking of my last defeat.... Pictures, poems, processions, with the Devil downmost! No. You're more than a match for me.
Don't you know I should be afraid of the ghost of the shepherd who killed himself? Don't you know that the English people call me a coward?" "May their souls dwell in the downmost hall of perdition!" said Hamish, with his cheeks becoming a gray-white; "and every woman that ever came of the accursed race!" He looked at the old man for a second, and he gripped his hand.
He pictured accident, disease and death, unemployment and starvation, child-labor, prostitution, war; he was the voice of the dispossessed of the earth, the man beneath the machine, ground up body, mind and soul in this "world-wide mill of economic might". And he showed how this man dragged down with him all society; how the chain that bound the slave was fastened also to the master so that from the poverty and oppression and degradation of this "downmost man" came all the ulcers that festered in the social body.
What demons so potent as molecular movements, none the less tremendously potent for not carrying the futile cargo of a consciousness screeching irrelevantly, like a fowl tied head downmost to the saddle of a swift horseman?
"And so mine well may," said Desborough, "ay, and overturned too, since my bed last night was turned upside down, and I was placed for ten minutes heels uppermost, and head downmost, like a bullock going to be shod." "What means this nonsense, Master Bletson? Desborough must have had the nightmare."
""Jamadagni said, 'That man whose heart is not pure is sure to go to Hell even if he adores the deities in a Horse-sacrifice or in a hundred Vajapeya sacrifices, or if he undergoes the severest austerities with head downmost. Purity of heart is regarded as equal to sacrifices and Truth.
'Instantaneous riddance of thee from face of earth. 'Good! Now, said the Demon, 'did you suppose I was to be trapped into a fight? No doubt you wish to become a saint, and have everybody talking of my last defeat . . . . Pictures, poems, processions, with the Devil downmost! No. You're more than a match for me.
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