They did things to endure for ages, they had led the world in many a grand career, and yet they bowed down to this miserable creature monopoly, compared with which the monkey of the Egyptians was indeed a god.
"Our Constitution is a bipartisan document, designed to endure for ages," they wrote.
After all, a Constitution is "intended to endure for ages to come," and must adapt itself to a future that can only be "seen dimly," if at all.
Their words sometimes were vague, laying a foundation for a later variety of views, but after all, it is not a statute, but a constitution we expound, as John Marshall, the first great Chief Justice, eloquently stated, and, he added, one intended "to endure for ages to come".
As any sane fan of Hollywood's annual and always glamorous Academy Awards show knows, what wins Oscars has little correlation with what will endure for the ages.
Even so, the album has endured for thirty years.
To the Editor: Our Constitution has endured for 225 years.
The show endured for five years.
Americans appear now, as a society, to be in a new Age of Trauma, mirroring the collective trauma that Pan Am'ers endured for so many years.
