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...Thou shalt not covet rifles...
...Thou shalt not fear...
...Thou shalt not ostentatiously show thyself...
...days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able, And on the seventh-holystone the decks and scrape the cable. -Richard Henry Dana Celebrated in song and story of the English-speaking navies and merchant marine is the holystone, a porous slab of sandstone used as an abrasive for keeping wooden decks snow-white.* In the U. S. Navy the holystone has been used since the Government first built ships. Formerly applied by seamen on hands and knees, holystoning is now performed with long-handled implements, mopwise. Nevertheless, there were always corners where the holystone had to be applied...
...could ever be a sufficient reason for excusing in any way the direct murder of the innocent? This is precisely what we are dealing with here. Whether inflicted upon the mother or upon the child it is against the precept of God and the law of nature: 'Thou shalt not kill'; the life of each is equally sacred, and no one has the power, not even the public authority, to destroy...