Word: hath
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...matter had turned the once orderly world of subatomic physics into what scientists called a "zoo." To bring some order out of the chaos, Gell-Mann-at the age of 24 -formulated his Theory of Strangeness (named after Francis Bacon's line: "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion"). He assigned a value to each of the puzzling new particles: a "strangeness" number based on their peculiar rate of decay. His analysis established a new and logical relationship between the particles and showed how they interacted...
...lesser men, courage has often been a means to lesser ends. "Who gets wealth that puts not from the shore?" asked Poet Samuel Daniel in England's expansive 16th century. "Danger hath honor; great designs their fame/Glory doth follow, courage goes before." Daniel's poem was the mercantile ethic frozen in meter. In that spirit, the conquistadors braved terra incognita to bleed Montezuma of his gold; the slave traders kidnaped tribesmen from Africa. In that spirit empires were created-and the conflicts of colonialism that still haunt the world. The motives for these enterprises were not necessarily ignoble...
...honeydew hath fed And drunk the milk of Paradise...
...heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord's; but the earth hath he given to the children of men. -Psalm...
...Music hath alarums to wild the civil breast...