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# Paulo Ucello/Chapter 5

CHAPTER V
How Paulo, who longed for a little living bird, fell to murmuring in his heart.
‘OH, holy Mother Poverty,’ he said, ‘One of thy silly sheep am I, alack! Water I drink, and eat coarse barley-bread:
And every superfluity I lack, Most like the snail that daubs the wall and goes Bearing its worthless all upon its back.
I want no farm such as Donato owes At Cafaggiolo, but a strip of ground, Where crab-apple, or pear, or fig-tree grows.
For even a head of garlic, I’ll be bound, Is joy to him who toiled to make it grow. Yet, what of that? My lands lie all around
Me here in pictured perspective: and though I’m not Donato, yet I’ve won some fame At painting trees and fields, which is, I trow,
As good as selling eggs. So in God’s name, Paulo di Dono, be content to see Beautiful lands on which thou hast no claim.
But oh! the pure delight ’twould be to me To own one of these blackbirds on the wing, Or nightingale, or wood-pecker, maybe.
No make-believe, a real living thing To call my own and cherish day by day In fact not fancy: one to fly and sing,
And comfort me now I am old and grey.’
# Paulo Ucello/Chapter 8

CHAPTER VIII
How the Saint, parting from Paulo, whose desires were so small, spake to him words that were great.
NOW that again Paulo, in chastened mood, With Poverty’s stern peace was well content, Saint Francis turned togo and raised his hood,
Called by a far-off bell. But, as he went, He looked, and still in Paulo’s eyes could see That quivering beat of wings, as yet unspent.
He wept for pity, knowing no harm could be In that vain, humble wish, the last that still Clung to his brother’s frail mortality.
The faint and far-off chime stole down the hill From a low convent on the wooded steep, The work of Paulo’s hand. Wafted at will,
From the blue hills, over the valleys deep, The peal came fitfully upon the air, And lulled the drowsy landscape into sleep.
‘Ave Maria,’ murmured the Saint in prayer. Then, on the unbent grass of the incline, He passed, with these last words of tender care:
‘Like to a bird thou art, sweet brother mine, Blinded by cruel men. With sightless gaze Thou seek’st a grain, and the full ear is thine,
Thou seek’st the sun, and all the sky’s ablaze.’
# Philosophy and Fun of Algebra/Chapter 15

CHAPTER XV √-1
When you come to quadratic equations you will be confronted with an entity (or non-entity) whose name is written this way—√-1, and pronounced "square root of minus one." Many people let this nonentity persuade them to foolish courses. A story is told of a man at Cambridge who was expected to be Senior Wrangler; but he got thinking about the square root of minus one as if it were a reality, till he lost his sleep and dreamed that he was the square root of minus one and could not extract himself; and he became so ill that he could not go to his examination at all. Angels, and square roots of negative quantities, and the other things that have no existence in three dimensions, do not come to us to gossip about themselves; or the place they came from; or where they are going to; or where we are going to in the far future. They are messengers from the As-Yet-Unknown; and come to tell us ​where we are to go next; and the shortest road to get there; and where we ought not to go just at present. When square root of minus one comes to you, behave reasonably about him. Treat him logically, exactly as if he were six or nine; only always remember to keep well in front of you the fact of your own ignorance. You may never find out any more about him than you know now; but if you treat him sensibly he will tell you plenty of truths about your x's and y's, and other unknown things.
Please don't suppose that I have always behaved sensibly to angels. I have often made serious mistakes in dealing with them. I have acted in haste and have had plenty of reason to repent at leisure. But one thing they have taught me is that we need never be afraid of angels, whether white or black, as long as we keep the laws of logic. Another thing they have shown me is that angels never really gossip. They have often pretended to gossip to me; but I have found out afterwards that they have been talking clever nonsense in order to test me and prove me; so that ​I might see in what an illogical state of mind I have met them. Angels leave real gossip to old women who have done their life's work and have time to sit in the chimney corner and tell tales about their past experiences to their child friends.
# Philosophy and Fun of Algebra/Chapter 12

CHAPTER XII JACOB'S LADDER
In Chapter X. I set you children a question:—Why did Jacob's angels come down a ladder, whereas other Hebrews saw angels mixed up with romantic pretty things such as wings and clouds?
I hope some of you have made a guess before now; but some are not good at guessing. I will tell you what may help you to find out.
If a bird wants to go up and down from the roof to the garden, it trusts to its wings. A man has to use a ladder: step,—step,—step.
If a bird is not fully fledged or has a broken wing, it has to find something more or less like a ladder; and go up and down bit by bit: hop,—hop,—hop.
If an artist wishes to draw a parabola, he does it freehand, that is to say, he just draws the curve. He does not take all the trouble which Mrs Somervell's book makes little children take, of ​getting the curve step by step by the method of Finite Differences.
Jacob wished to be rich. Some angel, but a very bad one, inspired him with an idea of getting rich in one big sweep, by cheating his father and brother. By wanting to do things in that sort of quick, easy way, when he did not yet know how to do things both quickly and rightly, he got into terrible trouble and had to leave his country.
Now I suppose that the angels who converted him meant to say something like this: "It is all very well for good, holy, God-fearing men like your father and grandfather to go where they are taken by angels who can move about on wings; but you are at present a stupid, clumsy person; your wings have not grown yet, or you have broken them by being covetous. We are going to show you how you should go about: step,—step,—step. Have patience, and take pains; and don't go about on magic carpets."
# Perez v. Campbell

United States Supreme Court
402 U.S. 637
Perez et ux. v. Campbell, Superintendent, Motor Vehicle Division, Arizona Highway Department, et al.
Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
No. 5175. Argued: January 19, 1971 --- Decided: June 1, 1971
The provision that "discharge in bankruptcy following the rendering of any such judgment [as a result of an automobile accident] shall not relieve the judgment debtor from any of the requirements of this article," contained in Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 28-1163 (B), part of the Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act, which the Arizona courts have construed as having as "its principal purpose the protection of the public using the highways from financial hardship which may result from the use of automobiles by financially responsible persons," directly conflicts with § 17 of the Bankruptcy Act, which states that a discharge in bankruptcy fully discharges all but certain specified judgments, and is thus unconstitutional as violative of the Supremacy Clause. Kesler v. Department of Public Safety, 369 U.S. 153, and Reitz v. Mealey, 314 U.S. 33, have no authoritative effect to the extent they are inconsistent with the controlling principle that state legislation that frustrates the full effectiveness of federal law is invalidated by the Supremacy Clause. Pp. 644-656.
421 F. 2d 619, reversed and remanded.
WHITE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which BLACK, DOUGLAS, BRENNAN, and MARSHALL, JJ., joined. BLACKMUN, J., filed an opinion concurring in the result as to petitioner Emma Perez and dissenting as to petitioner Adolfo Perez, in which BURGER, C.J., and HARLAN and STEWART, JJ., joined, post, p. 657.
Anthony B. Ching argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioners.
Robert H. Schlosser argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief was Gary K. Nelson, Attorney General of Arizona.

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# Perez v. United States

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## Dissenting Opinion

    Stewart
United States Supreme Court
402 U.S. 146
Perez v. United States
Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
No. 600. Argued: March 22, 1971 --- Decided: April 26, 1971
Petitioner was convicted of "loan sharking" activities, i.e., unlawfully using extortionate means in collecting and attempting to collect an extension of credit, in violation of Title II of the Consumer Credit Protection Act, and his conviction was affirmed on appeal. He challenges the constitutionality of the statute on the ground that Congress has no power to control the local activity of loan sharking.
Held: Title II of the Consumer Credit Protection Act is within Congress' power under the Commerce Clause to control activities affecting interstate commerce and Congress' findings are adequate to support its conclusion that loan sharks who use extortionate means to collect payments on loans are in a class largely controlled by organized crime with a substantially adverse effect on interstate commerce. Pp. 149-157.
426 F. 2d 1073, affirmed.
DOUGLAS, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which BURGER, C.J., and BLACK, HARLAN, BRENNAN, WHITE, MARSHALL, and BLACKMUN, JJ., joined. STEWART, J., filed a dissenting opinion, post, p. 157.
Albert J. Krieger argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs was Joel M. Finkelstein.
Solicitor General Griswold argued the cause for the United States. With him on the brief were Assistant Attorney General Wilson, Beatrice Rosenberg, and Marshall Tamor Golding.

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# Perez v. United States/Dissent Stewart

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* Dissenting Opinion Stewart
United States Supreme Court
402 U.S. 146
Perez v. United States
Argued: March 22, 1971. --- Decided: April 26, 1971
Mr. Justice STEWART, dissenting.
Congress surely has power under the Commerce Clause to enact criminal laws to protect the instrumentalities of interstate commerce, to prohibit the misuse of the channels or facilities of interstate commerce, and to prohibit or regulate those intrastate activities that have a demonstrably substantial effect on interstate commerce. But under the statute before us a man can be convicted without any proof of interstate movement, of the use of the facilities of interstate commerce, or of facts showing that his conduct affected interstate commerce. I think the Framers of the Constitution never intended that the National Government might define as a crime and prosecute such wholly local activity through the enactment of federal criminal laws.
In order to sustain this law we would, in my view, have to be able at the least to say that Congress could rationally have concluded that loan sharking is an activity with interstate attributes that distinguish it in some substantial respect from other local crime. But it is not enough to say that loan sharking is a national problem, for all crime is a national problem. It is not enough to say that some loan sharking has interstate characteristics, for any crime may have an interstate setting. And the circumstance that loan sharking has an adverse impact on interstate business is not a distinguishing attribute, for interstate business suffers from almost all criminal activity, be it shoplifting or violence in the streets.
Because I am unable to discern any rational distinction between loan sharking and other local crime, I cannot escape the conclusion that this statute was beyond the power of Congress to enact. The definition and prosecution of local, intrastate crime are reserved to the States under the Ninth and Tenth Amendments.

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# Perez v. California/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
395 U.S. 208
Enrique PEREZ v. CALIFORNIA.
The writ is dismissed as improvidently granted.
Mr. Justice DOUGLAS dissents from the dismissal of the writ.

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# Perez v. Ledesma

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## Dissenting Opinions

    Douglas
    Brennan
United States Supreme Court
401 U.S. 82
Perez et al. v. Ledesma et al.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
No. 60. Argued: November 17, 1970. --- Decided: February 23, 1971
Appellees, who had been arrested and charged with violating a Louisiana statute and a parish ordinance by displaying for sale allegedly obscene material (which was seized by the arresting officers), brought this suit in the Federal District Court for a declaration that the statute and ordinance were unconstitutional and for an injunction against their enforcement. A three-judge court which was convened upheld the statute and declined to issue an injunction, but, finding that the arrests and seizure were invalid, entered a suppression order prohibiting the use in state criminal proceedings of the illegally seized material and requiring its return to appellees. The three-judge court recognized that it had no jurisdiction to pass on the constitutionality of the ordinance but expressed the view that the ordinance was invalid. The single-judge court then declared the ordinance unconstitutional. Appellants appealed directly to this Court from the suppression order and the declaratory judgment invalidating the ordinance.
Held:
    1. The three-judge court erred in issuing the suppression order and thereby stifling the then-pending good-faith state criminal proceeding during which the defense should first raise its constitutional claims. Younger v. Harris, ante, p. 37. Pp. 84-85.
    2. This Court has no jurisdiction to review on direct appeal the validity of the order declaring the ordinance invalid, since it was a decision of a single federal judge and as such as appealable only to the Court of Appeals. Pp. 86-88.
304 F. Supp. 662, reversed in part, and vacated and remanded in part.
BLACK, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which BURGER, C.J., and HARLAN, STEWART, and BLACKMUN, JJ., joined. STEWART, J., filed a concurring opinion, in which BLACKMUN, J., joined, post, p. 89. DOUGLAS, J., filed an opinion dissenting in part, post, p. 90. BRENNAN, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part, in which WHITE and MARSHALL, JJ., joined, post, p. 93.
Charles H. Livaudais argued the cause for appellants. With him on the brief was Robert J. Klees.
Jack Peebles argued the cause for appellees. With him on the brief were Stanley Fleishman and Robert Eugene Smith.

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# Poems (Cook)

engraved by f holl from a photograph by john watkins
POEMS
by
ELIZA COOK.
Selected and Edited by the Author.
ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN GILBERT, J. WOLF, H. WEIR, J. D. WATSON, ETC. ETC. ENGRAVED BY THE BROTHERS DALZIEL.
LONDON: ROUTLEDGE, WARNE, & ROUTLEDGE, FARRINGDON STREET; AND 56, WALKER STREET, NEW YORK. M.DCCC.LXI.
LONDON: PRINTED BY RICHARD CLAY, BREAD STREET HILL.
CONTENTS.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
ENGRAVED BY THE BROTHERS DALZIEL.
London:—R. Clay, Printer, Bread Street Hill
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# Poems (Emerson, 1847)/To Eva

TO EVA.
O fair and stately maid, whose eyes Were kindled in the upper skies At the same torch that lighted mine; For so I must interpret still Thy sweet dominion o'er my will, A sympathy divine.
Ah! let me blameless gaze upon Features that seem at heart my own; Nor fear those watchful sentinels, Who charm the more their glance forbids, Chaste-glowing, underneath their lids, With fire that draws while it repels.
# Poems (Emerson, 1847)/To J. W.

TO J. W.
Set not thy foot on graves: Hear what wine and roses say The mountain chase, the summer waves, The crowded town, thy feet may well delay.
Set not thy foot on graves; Nor seek to unwind the shroud Which charitable Time And Nature have allowed To wrap the errors of a sage sublime.
Set not thy foot on graves: Care not to strip the dead Of his sad ornament, His myrrh, and wine, and rings, ​His sheet of lead, And trophies buried: Go, get them where he earned them when alive; As resolutely dig or dive.
Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark, Quarrel or reprimand: 'Twill soon be dark; Up, heed thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
# Poems (Emerson, Household Edition, 1904)/A Letter

A LETTER
Dear brother, would you know the life, Please God, that I would lead? On the first wheels that quit this weary town Over yon western bridges I would ride And with a cheerful benison forsake Each street and spire and roof, incontinent. Then would I seek where God might guide my steps, Deep in a woodland tract, a sunny farm, Amid the mountain counties, Hants, Franklin, Berks, Where down the rock ravine a river roars, Even from a brook, and where old woods Not tamed and cleared cumber the ground With their centennial wrecks. Find me a slope where I can feel the sun ​And mark the rising of the early stars. There will I bring my books,—my household gods, The reliquaries of my dead saint, and dwell In the sweet odor of her memory. Then in the uncouth solitude unlock My stock of art, plant dials in the grass, Hang in the air a bright thermometer And aim a telescope at the inviolate sun.
Chardon St., Boston, 1831.
# Poems (Emerson, 1847)/To Rhea

TO RHEA.
Thee, dear friend, a brother soothes, Not with flatteries, but truths, Which tarnish not, but purify To light which dims the morning's eye. I have come from the spring-woods, From the fragrant solitudes;— Listen what the poplar-tree And murmuring waters counselled me.
If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when love has once departed From the eyes of the false-hearted, ​And one by one has torn off quite The bandages of purple light; Though thou wert the loveliest Form the soul had ever dressed, Thou shalt seem, in each reply, A vixen to his altered eye; Thy softest pleadings seem too bold, Thy praying lute will seem to scold; Though thou kept the straightest road, Yet thou errest far and broad.
But thou shalt do as do the gods In their cloudless periods; For of this lore be thou sure,— Though thou forget, the gods, secure, Forget never their command, But make the statute of this land. As they lead, so follow all, Ever have done, ever shall. Warning to the blind and deaf, 'Tis written on the iron leaf, ​Who drinks of Cupid's nectar cup Loveth downward, and not up; Therefore, who loves, of gods or men, Shall not by the same be loved again; His sweetheart's idolatry Falls, in turn, a new degree. When a god is once beguiled By beauty of a mortal child, And by her radiant youth delighted, He is not fooled, but warily knoweth His love shall never be requited. And thus the wise Immortal doeth.— 'Tis his study and delight To bless that creature day and night; From all evils to defend her; In her lap to pour all splendor; To ransack earth for riches rare, And fetch her stars to deck her hair: He mixes music with her thoughts, And saddens her with heavenly doubts: All grace, all good his great heart knows, Profuse in love, the king bestows: ​Saying, 'Hearken! Earth, Sea, Air! This monument of my despair Build I to the All-Good, All-Fair. Not for a private good, But I, from my beatitude, Albeit scorned as none was scorned, Adorn her as was none adorned. I make this maiden an ensample To Nature, through her kingdoms ample, Whereby to model newer races, Statelier forms, and fairer faces; To carry man to new degrees Of power, and of comeliness. These presents be the hostages Which I pawn for my release. See to thyself, O Universe! Thou art better, and not worse.'— And the god, having given all, Is freed forever from his thrall.
# Poems (Emerson, 1847)/Uriel

URIEL.
It fell in the ancient periods, Which the brooding soul surveys, Or ever the wild Time coined itself Into calendar months and days.
This was the lapse of Uriel, Which in Paradise befell. Once, among the Pleiads walking, Said overheard the young gods talking; And the treason, too long pent, To his ears was evident. The young deities discussed Laws of form, and metre just, Orb, quintessence, and sunbeams, What subsisteth, and what seems. ​One, with low tones that decide, And doubt and reverend use defied, With a look that solved the sphere, And stirred the devils everywhere, Gave his sentiment divine Against the being of a line. 'Line in nature is not found; Unit and universe are round; In vain produced, all rays return; Evil will bless, and ice will burn.' As Uriel spoke with piercing eye, A shudder ran around the sky; The stern old war-gods shook their heads The seraphs frowned from myrtle-beds; Seemed to the holy festival The rash word boded ill to all; The balance-beam of Fate was bent; The bounds of good and ill were rent; Strong Hades could not keep his own, But all slid to confusion. A sad self-knowledge, withering, fell On the beauty of Uriel; ​In heaven once eminent, the god Withdrew, that hour, into his cloud; Whether doomed to long gyration In the sea of generation, Or by knowledge grown too bright To hit the nerve of feebler sight. Straightway, a forgetting wind Stole over the celestial kind, And their lips the secret kept, If in ashes the fire-seed slept. But now and then, truth-speaking things Shamed the angels' veiling wings; And, shrilling from the solar course, Or from fruit of chemic force, Procession of a soul in matter, Or the speeding change of water, Or out of the good of evil born, Came Uriel's voice of cherub scorn, And a blush tinged the upper sky, And the gods shook, they knew not why.
# Poems (Emerson, 1847)/Xenophanes

XENOPHANES.
By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to waterfalls, One aspect to the desert and the lake. It was her stern necessity: all things Are of one pattern made; bird, beast, and flower, Song, picture, form, space, thought, and character, Deceive us, seeming to be many things, And are but one. Beheld far off, they differ As God and devil; bring them to the mind, They dull its edge with their monotony. To know one element, explore another, And in the second reappears the first. The specious panorama of a year But multiplies the image of a day,— ​A belt of mirrors round a taper's flame; And universal Nature, through her vast And crowded whole, an infinite paroquet, Repeats one note.
# Poems (Emerson, Household Edition, 1904)/A Mountain Grave

A MOUNTAIN GRAVE
Why fear to die And let thy body lie Under the flowers of June, Thy body food For the ground-worms' brood And thy grave smiled on by the visiting moon.
Amid great Nature's halls Girt in by mountain walls And washed with waterfalls It would please me to die, Where every wind that swept my tomb Goes loaded with a free perfume Dealt out with a God's charity.
​I should like to die in sweets, A hill's leaves for winding-sheets, And the searching sun to see That I am laid with decency. And the commissioned wind to sing His mighty psalm from fall to spring And annual tunes commemorate Of Nature's child the common fate.
Williamstown, Vermont, 1 June, 1831.