- One of the most expressive symbols of primitive fear, at the same time of high artistic value, can be found in the drawing of a sort of ghoulish spirit by a member of the Geimbio tribe of Australia. From the wrists and elbows of this thin and hairy spirit hang human bones taken from the dead whom he seeks to devour. (See The Mythology of All Races , edited by Louis Herbert Gray and George Foot Moore , Vol. IX , p. 284. Boston : Marshall Jones Company , 1916 ).
- Lucretius , De Rerum Natura , translated by John Mason Good . London : Longmans , 1805. Vol. I , p. 371.
- Translation taken from Thomas Salusbury's Mathematical Collections and Translations , London, 1661. See Three Thousand Years of Educational Wisdom , edited by Robert Ulich. Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1947 , pp. 305 , 323 ff.
- From the English translation of Herder's Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit by T. Churchill , London , 1800 , p. VII.
- At a political meeting , held in Boston in September 1947 , one of the speakers could say about one of the modern American statesmen: “As a political leader, Mr. X is in a very difficult situation. He has nothing behind him but the people.”
The Educational Forum
Volume 13, 1948 - Issue 1