If in the work of an obscure economic writer, of no perceptible ability, you come upon the theory that the land of a people belongs to the people; that its passing into the absolute ownership of private persons is the basic evil of our civilization; that the nation must resume the inalienable rights of the people at large, in the resources of all wealth, and regulate the individual usufruct of land in the interests of the entire body politic-you will probably toss the book contemptuously from you as the crazy lucubration of a fool.
"The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible"
R. Heber Newton
"Well, you know a dash necessitates lucubration.
"The Way of the Gods"
John Luther Long
But I am here running into shreds of maxims from reading Tacitus this morning, which has driven me from my recommendation of public spirit, which was the intended purpose of this lucubration.
"The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886"
Ministry of Education