Religious Significance
Robert L. Short, in his book The Parables of Dr. Seuss, points out that Bartholomew shares a name with one of the Apostles of Jesus, In Illuminati and Jewish writings he is one of several Archangels left on earth to battle in the apocalypse. Bartholomew Cubbins is the one who exhorts the silly King into humility and repentance.
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“We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians. We do not care for the Bible, but we do care for the newspaper. At any meeting of politicians ... how impertinent it would be to quote from the Bible! how pertinent to quote from a newspaper or from the Constitution!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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