What Answer? by Anna E. Dickinson
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"Suppose you are an atom against the universe?" "Don't fight, succumb. There's a proverb,--a wise one,--Napoleon's, 'God is on the side of the strongest battalions.'" "A lie,--exploded at Waterloo. There's another proverb, 'One on the side of God is a majority.' How about that?" "Transcendental humbug." "A truth demonstrated at Wittenberg." "Are you aching for the martyr's palm?" "I am afraid not. On the whole, I think I'd rather enjoy life than quarrel with it. But"--with a sudden blaze--"I feel to-day like fighting the world." "Hey, presto! what now, young'un?" "I don't wonder you stare"--a little laugh. "I'm talking like a fool, and, for aught I know, feeling like one, aching to fight, and knowing that I might as well quarrel with the winds, or stab that water as it flows by." "As with what?" "The fellow I've just been getting a good look at." "What manner of fellow?" |
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