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Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the flames and the purloining of altar vessels. When it goes away it

Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the flames and the purloining of altar vessels. When it goes away it leaves smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is not a children's pastime like mere highway robbery.

Stephen Crane
Wisdom, Children, Wall
Stephen Crane (2015). “Men, Women, and Boats”, p.181, The Floating Press

Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.

Stephen Crane
Art, Children, Men
Stephen Crane (1963). “Whilomville stories. The black riders, and other lines”

Tell her this And more,— That the king of the seas Weeps too, old, helpless man. The bustling fates Heap his hands with corpses Until he stands like a child With surplus of toys.

Stephen Crane
Kings, Children, Fate
Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.1312, Library of America

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