Every variation that cropped up, every factor that “selected” the fit, and eliminated the unfit, was strictly predestined, and must of necessity have appeared as, and when, and where it did appear.
— from Naturalism and Religion by Rudolf Otto

The filing charge before United States Commissioner at Fallon is $1. SEAGULLS IN COUNTLESS NUMBERS GIVE LIFE TO THIS AMERICAN DEAD SEA THE PLAINS AND MOUNTAINS OF NEVADA HAVE A CHARM ABOVE THE RICHES THEY YIELD TO THE INSISTENT SEEKER With water absolutely assured by the Government and the fertility of the land unquestioned, no one possessed of energy and good health with sufficient money to purchase the actual needs of a residence and farm cultivation, say from $1000 to $2000, need fear failure.
— from The Overland Route to the Road of a Thousand Wonders The Route of the Union Pacific & The Southern Pacific Railroads from Omaha to San Francisco, a Journey of Eighteen Hundred Miles Where Once the Bison & the Indian Reigned by Union Pacific Railroad Company. Passenger Department

He became a student of the Italian language, and writes to a friend: ‘I who certainly have not merely wetted the tip of my lips in the stream of these (the classical) languages, but in proportion to my years have swallowed the most copious draughts, can yet page 10 p. 10 sometimes retire with avidity and delight to feast on Dante, Petrarch, and many others; nor has Athens itself been able to confine me to the transparent waves of its Ilissus, nor ancient Rome to the banks of its Tiber, so as to prevent my visiting with delight the streams of the Arno and the hills of Fæsolæ.’
— from Obiter Dicta: Second Series by Augustine Birrell