"In the beginning we recall that the word was hurled" - Electric Torah metaphors of verse John 1:1 - "Babel Tower ARG" language words - My Civic Ditty
"In the beginning we recall that the word was hurled" - Electric Torah metaphors of verse John 1:1 - "Babel Tower ARG" language words - My Civic Ditty
Barrytown song Lyrics: "In the beginning we recall that the word was hurled"
"the word was hurled"
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/08/05/spear/
In 1893 Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer published an article titled “Ueber den psychischen Mechanismus hysterischer Phänomene” in a Vienna medical journal. The title could be rendered in English as “On the Psychical Mechanism of Hysterical Phenomena”. The following was the pertinent passage in German about the beginning of civilization:
"Aber, wie ein englischer Autor geistreich bemerkte, derjenige, welcher dem Feinde statt des Pfeiles ein Schimpfwort entgegenschleuderte, war der Begründer der Civilisation, so ist das Wort der Ersatz für die That und unter Umständen der einzige Ersatz (Beichte)."