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Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. i continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
There are two things necessary to salvation.... money and gunpowder.
In recent times, european nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. one, the british empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.
The apothegm is the most portable form of truth.... it is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.
The proverb answers where the sermon fails.
Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.
The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered on the ground ignites only grain by grain.
Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.
In one of the most brilliant papers in the english language hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality' is nothing more than the phenomenon of repetition. when we mix sulphur with saltpeter and charcoal we always get gunpowder. this is true of every event subsumed by a causal law in other words, everything which can be called scientific knowledge. "it is custom which rules ," hume said, and in that one sentence undermined both science and philosophy .
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