Show THERE IS NOTHING NEW NEV UNDER THE SUN We Ve think we live in a complicated complicated complicated age but more than three hundred years ago ago everything was just as topsy as it is today R Robert bert Burton who vho was born tin do 1576 published a famous famous famous fam fam- i ous book called The Anatomy of Melancholy in 1621 And three hundred and eleven years tc g h he wrote in that boo bo c a l ln n number fuber o of paragraphs which hay hav a n very familiar sound in inthis inthis in inthis this year yar of grace In Here Here- are some esome of them Nov N v news every day Those ordinary rumors of war plagues fires inundations the thefts ts murders massacres cres meteors comets spectrums a ap P shipwrecks A vast confusion of vows wishes actions actions actions ac ac- edicts petitions lawsuits lawsuit pleas laws proclamation complaints grievances Then comes tidings of weddings entertainments entertainments entertainments en en- embassies troph trophies ies sports plays treasons robberies robberies rob rob- enormous villainies of kinds funerals d death ath of kings new discoveries ans expedition expedition expedition tion Our summum bonum is commodity and the goddess we ve adore Dea Ion I Moneta ta Que i Money oney So many professed Christians Christians Chris Chris- yet so few imitators of Christ so much talk of religion religion religion ion PO so much yet so little conscience To see so many lawyers yet so little justice so many laws yet never more La Lawyers get more to hold their peace than we to say our very best New books every day pamphlets pamphlets pam pam- pamphlets stories whole catalogues catalogues catalogues catalo catalo- gues of volumes of all sorts new paradoxes stories whole catalogues of volumes of all sorts new paradoxes schisms heresies controversies religion religion re re- re- re ligion etc Only the very young or the very ery inexperienced think that there is any material change in human nature and its manifestations mani mani- J from century to cen cen- I tury I cen-I |