An uncomfortable variation of his dream of the resurrected first-floor crossed his mind.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
And this is done in the name of "nature"-that old nature of the "tooth and claw," whose ancient plan it is "that they shall take who have the power, and they shall keep who can"; that ancient nature which has been so entirely suppressed and supplanted by civilized man, and which survives only as a ghost, a skeleton to be resurrected from the tomb, for the purpose of frightening the enslaved.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
Everything in nature teaches us that we will return to dust, and that we will be resurrected only as dust by the idle winds.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe