Mason Cooley Quotes
Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.
Cooley, Mason. City Aphorisms. New York: M. Cooley, 1984-2000.
This document was issued in the form of what today would be called a press release or a white paper. Altmark was the Lutheran seat of intellectuality and this document was part of a major Lutheran initiative to propagandize against the rising science of astronomy. The Catholics did the same and both religions saw astronomy as an enemy and evil. See {612384}
In addition to the immense secular powers that can be used to obtain obedience, in a theocracy, there is the additional weapon of damnation. See {628182} for his use of some of the others.
Mason Cooley was an American aphorist known for his witty aphorisms. One of these such aphorisms Cooley developed was "The time I kill is killing me." He was professor emeritus of French, speech and world literature at the College of Staten Island. He was also an assistant professor of English at Columbia University from 1959 to 1967 and an adjunct professor from 1980 to 1988. He received his B.A. from San Diego State University and his Ph.D. from Oxford.
