It is true, I do not quote him fairly: I omit his laudatory Antitheses.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
Common sense sees life and death as distinct states having nothing in common, and hence in all respects the Antitheses of one another; so that with common sense there should be no degrees of livingness, but if a thing is alive at all it is as much alive as the most living of us, and if dead at all it is stone dead in every part of it.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
His thought and his conversation were a perpetual flow of Antitheses and a whirl of paradoxes, a forcible pushing forward of research, a ruthless sport.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann