“ Fashion is like God, man cannot see it in its holy of holies and live. ”
Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912). copy citation
| Author | Samuel Butler |
|---|---|
| Source | The Note-Books of Samuel Butler |
| Topic | God fashion |
| Date | 1912 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6173/6173-h/6173-h.htm |
Context
“This drone is, as it were, the flour and suet of a plum pudding.
Evasive Nature
She is one long This-way-and-it-isness and, at the same time, That-way-and-it-isn’tness. She flies so like a snipe that she is hard to hit.
Fashion
Fashion is like God, man cannot see it in its holy of holies and live. And it is, like God, increate, springing out of nothing, yet the maker of all things—ever changing yet the same yesterday, to-day and for ever.
Doctors and Clergymen
A physician’s physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric’s divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.”
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