"Overlying" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... assert that heaven and earth were united in a state of chaos until a divine man, whom they call P'an-ku, the "ancient founder," rent them asunder. Pictures show him wielding his sledge-hammer and disengaging sun and moon from overlying hills—a grotesque conception in strong contrast with the simple and sublime statement, "God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light." P'an-ku was followed by a divine being named Nue-wa, in regard to whom it [Page 71] is doubtful whether to speak in the feminine or in the masculine gender. ...
— The Awakening of China • W.A.P. Martin
... entirely frustrated. Headquarters had, through the officers, to interfere and all such demonstrations of amity to be for the future forbidden. Could anything more clearly show the beating of the great heart of Man beneath the thickly overlying husks of class and class-government? When, oh! when indeed, will the real human creature ...
— The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife • Edward Carpenter |
