Westward the course of empire takes its way;
The four first acts already past,
A fifth shall close the drama with the day:
Time’s noblest offspring is the last.
Bishop George Berkeley
[(According to W. Cleon Skousen, the first four empires are the Neo-Babylonian Empire, the Persian Empire, the Macedonian Empire, and the (Western, Eastern, and Holy) Roman Empire) the fifth was believed to mean the British American colonies] photog
I always enjoyed Bishop Berkeley. Thanks for the quotation and the analysis.
I go through an old Oxford Dictionary of Quotations for a list of authors and then I research that author’s quotes to see if any are interesting. It’s sort of a fun game for me.