Epworth Quotes

Whispering like it's a secret, only to condemn the one who hears it, with a heavy heart.

I reviewed in thought the modern era of raps and apparitions, beginning with the knockings of 1848, at the hamlet of Hydesville, N.Y., and ending with grotesque phenomena at Cambridge, Mass.; I evoked the anklebones and other anatomical castanets of the Fox sisters (as described by the sages of the University of Buffalo ); the mysteriously uniform type of delicate adolescent in bleak Epworth or Tedworth, radiating the same disturbances as in old Peru; solemn Victorian orgies with roses falling and accordions floating to the strains of sacred music; professional imposters regurgitating moist cheesecloth; Mr. Duncan, a lady medium's dignified husband, who, when asked if he would submit to a search, excused himself on the ground of soiled underwear; old Alfred Russel Wallace, the naive naturalist, refusing to believe that the white form with bare feet and unperforated earlobes before him, at a private pandemonium in Boston, could be prim Miss Cook whom he had just seen asleep, in her curtained corner, all dressed in black, wearing laced-up boots and earrings; two other investigators, small, puny, but reasonably intelligent and active men, closely clinging with arms and legs about Eusapia, a large, plump elderly female reeking of garlic, who still managed to fool them; and the skeptical and embarrassed magician, instructed by charming young Margery's "control" not to get lost in the bathrobe's lining but to follow up the left stocking until he reached the bare thigh - upon the warm skin of which he felt a "teleplastic" mass that appeared to the touch uncommonly like cold, uncooked liver. ("The Vane Sisters")

The process of formal education in universities typically consists of listening to spoken text in lectures, and reading written text, as typified by the phrase “to read for a degree” in law for example. The use of this phrase implies that the study of written text has been considered an efficient and effective strategy for learning.

There is obviously much more to education than this, for tutorials, workshops and projects all help the student integrate the information they have absorbed through lectures and reading, into effective conceptual ideas.

just tried typing “why do men” into the address bar of Google Search, and the auto-complete function immediately suggested the following: “cheat?”, “rape?”, “have nipples?” presumably calculating that these are my three most likely questions! Searching for the phrase “why do men cheat?” in quotes, returns well over a million entries, more than twice the number that I get for the phrase “why do men work?”, suggesting that Google thinks that cheating is twice as popular as work, at least for men!

this shows that the Google search tool behaves more like a sensational tabloid newspaper than an encyclopaedia.

The result is that the Web creates islands of opinion, fertile environments in which conspiracy theories thrive. A juicy fiction is read, replicated and propagated far more widely than a boring fact, so many fictions appear to be common knowledge.