1871
1871.1.488) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: ...the interested parties naturally drum up a cloud of witnesses who are cheerfully willing to give evidence without ever knowing anything about the matter in hand.
Scripture: Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,” -- Hebrews 12:1
Work; Date: Goldsmith’s Friend Abroad Again; October and November 1870, and January 1871
Source: Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays 1852-1890
1871.2.489) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: What was an old public servant to do after such treatment? Shake the dust from his sandals and leave the State to its self-invited decay and ruin.
Scripture: And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. – Matthew 10:14
Work; Date: THE COMING MAN; February, 1871
Source: http://www.twainquotes.com/Galaxy/187102a.html
1871.3.490) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: He gives, however, for what it is worth, a quaint tradition which carries the origin of this game back almost to the garden of Eden -- back, in fact, to Cain and Abel in person.
Scripture: And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. -- Genesis 4:1,2
Work; Date: A BOOK REVIEW; February, 1871
Source: http://www.twainquotes.com/Galaxy/187102b.html
1871.4.491) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: Adam was an Aryan,* [* The Hebrews, it will be remembered, do not appear among the brotherhood of nations until the Abrahamic era. ]
Scripture: Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: -- Genesis 12:1,2
Work; Date: A BOOK REVIEW; February, 1871
Source: http://www.twainquotes.com/Galaxy/187102b.html
1871.5.492) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: If we probe, and dissect, and lay open this diseased, this cancerous piety of his, we are forced to the conviction that it is the production of an impression on his part that his guild do about all the good that is done in the earth, and hence are better than common clay -- hence are competent to say to such as George Holland, “You are unworthy; you are a play actor, and consequently a sinner; I cannot take the responsibility of recommending you to the mercy of Heaven.”
Scripture: The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. -- Luke 18:11
Work; Date: THE INDIGNITY PUT UPON THE REMAINS OF GEORGE HOLLAND BY THE REV. MR. SABINE; February, 1871
Source: http://www.twainquotes.com/Galaxy/187102g.html
1871.6.493) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: I have divine authority for it that we are all sinners, and therefore it is not for me to discriminate and say we will supplicate for this sinner, for he was a merchant prince or a banker, but we will beseech no forgiveness for this other one, for he was a play-actor.
Scripture: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; -- Romans 3:23
Work; Date: THE INDIGNITY PUT UPON THE REMAINS OF GEORGE HOLLAND BY THE REV. MR. SABINE; February, 1871
Source: http://www.twainquotes.com/Galaxy/187102g.html
1871.7.494) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: This creature has violated the letter of the gospel and judged George Holland -- not George Holland either -- but his profession through him.
Scripture: Judge not, that ye be not judged. -- Matthew 7:1
Work; Date: THE INDIGNITY PUT UPON THE REMAINS OF GEORGE HOLLAND BY THE REV. MR. SABINE; February, 1871
Source: http://www.twainquotes.com/Galaxy/187102g.html
1871.8.495) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: In effect he has said, “We are the salt of the earth; we do all the good work that is done; to learn how to be good and do good, men must come to us; actors and such are obstacles to moral progress.”
Scripture: Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. -- Matthew 5:13
Work; Date: THE INDIGNITY PUT UPON THE REMAINS OF GEORGE HOLLAND BY THE REV. MR. SABINE; February, 1871
Source: http://www.twainquotes.com/Galaxy/187102g.html
1871.9.496) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: Sir: I believe in capital punishment. I believe that when a murder has been done it should be answered for with blood. I have all my life been taught to feel in this way, and the fetters of education are strong.
Scripture: And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. -- Deuteronomy 19:21
Work; Date: A Substitute for Rulloff; May 3, 1871
Source: Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays 1852-1890
1871.10.497) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: It will be a starchy book, and should be full of snappy pictures—especially pictures worked in with the letterpress. The dedication will be worth the price of the volume—thus:
To the Late Cain.
This Book is Dedicated:
Not on account of respect for his memory, for it merits little respect; not on account of sympathy with him, for his bloody deed placed him without the pale of sympathy, strictly speaking: but out of a mere human commiseration for him that it was his misfortune to live in a dark age that knew not the beneficent Insanity Plea.
Scripture: And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. -- Genesis 4:16
Work; Date: Letter to Elisha Bliss; May 15, 1871
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3194/3194-h/3194-h.htm
1871.11.498) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: Also, on this floor, and communicating with the parlors, will be - tell it not in Gath, publish it not in Askalon! - six bathrooms! - hot and cold water - free tickets issued to any applicant among the unclean of the congregation!
Scripture: Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. -- 2 Samuel 1:20
Work; Date: A NEW BEECHER CHURCH; July 23, 1871
Source: http://www.twainquotes.com/18710723.html
1871.12.499) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: Each of these layers had its peculiar animal and vegetable life, and when each layer’s mission was done, it and its animals and vegetables ceased from their labors and were forever buried under the new layer, with its new-shaped and new fangled animals and vegetables.
Scripture: For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. -- Hebrews 4:10
Work; Date: A Brace of Brief Lectures on Science; September/October, 1871
Source: Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays 1852-1890
1871.13.500) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: Do you see how these clues and “evidences” are all the materials the science of paleontology needs in order to give to the world the wonder of a--
Primeval Man;
And not only that but tell what was the particular period he lived in;
What weapons he carried;
What kind of clothes he wore;
What his art predilections and capacities were;
What he made his weapons with;
What his funeral customs were;
What part of a bear or a child he preferred for breakfast;
What animal got the remains of his feasts, and what animal didn’t;
And finally, what the foundation and corner-stone of the religion of the lost and lamented old ante-diluvian commander-in-chief of all the fossils, was!
Scripture: And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; -- 2 Peter 2:5
Work; Date: A Brace of Brief Lectures on Science; September/October, 1871
Source: Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays 1852-1890
1871.14.501) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: Every time we get a chance to assert something, we have to take back something. When we announced and established the great discovery of the “Glacial Period,” how we did have to cart the dead animals around! Because, do not you see, the indiscriminate sort of distribution of fossil species which we had accommodated to the characteristic action of a general flood would not answer for a nicely discriminating “glacial period” which ought to transport only walruses, white bears, and other frigid creatures, from the North Pole down into Africa and not meddle with any other kind of animals.
Scripture: And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. -- Genesis 7:23
Work; Date: A Brace of Brief Lectures on Science; September/October, 1871
Source: Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays 1852-1890
1871.15.502) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: You see how it is. Science is as sorry as you are that this year’s science is no more like last year’s science than last year’s was like the science of twenty years gone by. But science cannot help it. Science is full of change. Science is progressive and eternal. The scientists of twenty years ago laughed at the ignorant men who had groped in the intellectual darkness of twenty years before.
Scripture: Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men. -- Isaiah 59:9,10
Work; Date: A Brace of Brief Lectures on Science; September/October, 1871
Source: Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays 1852-1890
1871.16.503) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: Who is God, the one only and true?
A. Money is God. Gold and greenbacks and stock – father, son, and the ghost of the same – three persons in one: these are the true and only God, mighty and supreme; and William Tweed is his prophet.
Scripture: Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: -- Matthew 28:19
Work; Date: The Revised Catechism; September 27, 1871
Source: Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays 1852-1890
1871.17.504) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: Name the twelve disciples.
Scripture: Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus; Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. -- Matthew 10:2-4
Work; Date: The Revised Catechism; September 27, 1871
Source: Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays 1852-1890