There is a kind of pressure in humans to take whatever is most

beloved by them

and smash it.

Religion calls the pressure piety and the smashed things a sacrifice to

God.

Prophets question these names.

[AC]

Bachelard: One might say that immensity is a philosophical category of daydream.

RE: the Haymarket Riots

Before jury deliberations in the attempted payroll robbery charge for which Vanzetti was tried as an appetizer to the murder trial:

“This man, although he may not have actually committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions.”

Judge Webster Thayer