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No deadlier Murder is ever done
than he who says nothing can be done.
No disembowelment of purpose and faith
is greater than the nay-sayer
whose cold dead voice intones
'I don't think it can be done.'
Take these kind
convict them all
of robbing us of the Future's Call-
no greater sin than this-
because it kills new baby things in the crib.
A second sin greater still
is the cold hand which strangles Joy
in stern rejecting countenances
which suck life from the room
extinguishing the oxygen
till every soul suffocates
in the dark dank which decays
life-aborning.
Yes, a special place in hell for these
because Satan's true sin
is disbelief, and rank negativity.
That is why he lives in Hell--
the Home of Negativities.
Democratic Dilemmas and Divine Inspiration examines the significance or relevance of the idea that the U.S. Constitution was, as many believe, divinely inspired. How much did that belief matter to founders of the nation and how much does it matter no