Vertical Run

Dessencions, discordes, contencions, stryfe, great manslaughter, murmuracions, feares … noughty enterprises … moch pyllage, theftes, robberies, lyes, great noyses, tumultes, comocions … great mischiefe, hatred and wrath … deceite, treason, burnynge, adulterye … warre, envy, hatred, rancour … and finally all kinds of wickednes.

— Vaughan’s Almanacke and Prognostication for 1559

Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be into the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey …

— William James