Quotation: Nathaniel Hawthorne On cemeteries, prisons, and new colonies!

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) Discuss

2 responses to “Quotation: Nathaniel Hawthorne On cemeteries, prisons, and new colonies!

  1. Somewhat cynical, certainly ironic and unfortunately true.

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