There is a savage brutality in the soul of man. “‘Tis an unweeded garden That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.”
Only by unceasing efforts to weed and prune can we hope to overcome this bestial aspect of our nature. Hamas is only the latest example of this profound wickedness.
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Thank you, Cogito, for your intellectual and emotional understanding!
The comments thus far beneath the article in NER show no horror, no pity, no comprehension.
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It’s I who should be thanking you, Jillian. Your elegant and erudite essays have given me hours of pleasure over the years.
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To have appreciative readers is a great thing. To be understood is a huge reward.
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That piece says it all, so well. Thank you, Jillian, for stating it perfectly!
It’s been, over the past 50 years or so of America’s “golden age”, so easy to forget the reality always present under the surface of civilization. But the evil buried underneath was rotting it away the whole time, and now surfaces again.
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Yes. My thanks to you, Liz.
And it looks as if it is about to score a decisive victory. The devils who govern Iran will not hesitate to use nukes.
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