Giordano Bruno Quotes
Nothing is so good that impious and sacrilegious and wicked people cannot contort its proper benefit into evil.
Bruno, Giordano. The Ash Wednesday Supper. Translated by Edward A. Gosselin and Lawrence S. Lerner, University of Toronto Press, 1995, p. 88.
Referring to the Chinese immigrants:
Harrison was a General at the time.
Giordano Bruno was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, cosmological theorist, and Hermetic occultist. He is known for his cosmological theories, which conceptually extended the then-novel Copernican model. He proposed that the stars were distant suns surrounded by their own planets, and he raised the possibility that these planets might foster life of their own, a cosmological position known as cosmic pluralism. He also insisted that the universe is infinite and could have no "center".