Can any good come out of Nazareth? This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good, the new, comes from exactly that quarter whence it is not looked for, and is always different from what was expected. Everything new is received with contempt-for it begins in obscurity. It becomes a power unobserved. β¨ The Radical. Book by C. C. Shackford, vol. 7, p. 329, 1870.
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