Burials/history

Famous quotes containing the words burials and/or history:

“Cole’s Hill was the scene of the secret night burials of those who died during the first year of the settlement. Corn was planted over their graves so that the Indians should not know how many of their number had perished.”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.”
—William James (1842–1910)