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And again your honor and gentlemen of the jury, be it known unto you that, for this hereinbefore-spoken-of slanderer and counselor for aforesaid plaintiff to place himself upon ground fenced in by lies, villany, deceit, treachery; yes and gall, and to have a litle essence of “Rose” mixed with Murray by means of which to c—harm, and by means of all of these united to attempt the extortion of one thousand dollars from our juviniscent client, is, indeed the height of infamy, and for such demonicality we invoke upon them the wrath of the gods and little fishes to furnish them with scales and fins that they may go with them to se(a)e and be convinced of the pomposity of such an attempt.

1883 December 29, H. B. Brown, quotee, “Gaul vs. Masten. A Mock Trial Before the Literary Society of the Young Men’s Christian Association.”, in J. G. P. Holden, editor, The Yonkers Gazette, volume XXXII, number 1650, Yonkers, N.Y.: J. G. P. Holden, →OCLC, page [2]

Longer life than necessary is just the opposite of heroic ambition which is punished, as a rule, with a short life span by the gods. In the fates of Antigone, Creon, Haemon, and in everybody else’s fate the demonicality of time works which does not mean the indifference of the gods or the lack of a passage between the time sphere of the drama and the divine immortality.

1985, José Lambert, André Lefevere, editors, Translation in the Development of Literatures, Bern: Peter Lang; Leuevn: Leuven University Press, →ISBN, page 151

Early Christian theology created a fusion of Platonic dualism and apocalyptic Judaism. Generally, nature was tied to evil, but not entirely. The Christian view of nature took on much the same character as its view of women. There was a split between two opposing possibilities for nature—sacramentality or demonicality.

1986, David L[yle] Shields, “Dualism and the Church”, in Growing Beyond Prejudices: Overcoming Hierarchical Dualism, Mystic, Conn.: Twenty-Third Publications, →ISBN, chapter 1 (Sexism and Dualism: [Rosemary Radford] Ruether Presents a Challenge), page 21