Source of Episode Titles

[ElectricBoogaloo]

I know we've talked about this in various episode threads each season, but I thought it would be nice to have a thread where we can discuss the episode titles for each season. First, the sources!

Season 1: On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
S1.E1 Natural Selection
S1.E2 Instinct
S1.E3 Variation Under Nature
S1.E4 Effects of External Conditions
S1.E5 Conditions of Existence
S1.E6 Variations Under Domestication
S1.E7 Parts Developed in an Unusual Manner
S1.E8 Entangled Bank
S1.E9 Unconscious Selection
S1.E10 Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Season 2: Sir Francis Bacon
S2.E1 Nature Under Constraint and Vexed
S2.E2 Governed by Sound Reason and True Religion
S2.E3 Mingling Its Own Nature with It
S2.E4 Governed As It Were By Chance
S2.E5 Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est
S2.E6 To Hound Nature in Her Wandering
S2.E7 Knowledge of Causes, and Secret Motion of Things
S2.E8 Variable and Full of Pertubation
S2.E9 Things Which Have Never Yet Been Done
S2.E10 By means Which Have Never Yet Been Tried

Season 3: Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address to the nation (January 17, 1961)
S3.E1 The Weight of This Combination
S3.E2 Transitory Sacrifices of Crisis
S3.E3 Formalized, Complex, and Costly
S3.E4 Newer Elements of Our Defenses
S3.E5 Scarred by Many Past Frustrations
S3.E6 Certain Agony of the Battlefield
S3.E7 Community of Dreadful Fear and Hate
S3.E8 Ruthless in Purpose, and Insidious in Method
S3.E9 Insolvent Phantom of Tomorrow
S3.E10 History Yet to be Written

Season 4: Donna Haraway
S4.E1 The Collapse of Nature
S4.E2 Transgressive Border Crossing
S4.E3 The Stigmata of Progress
S4.E4 From Instinct to Rational Control
S4.E5 Human Raw Material
S4.E6 The Scandal of Altruism
S4.E7 The Antisocialism of Sex
S4.E8 The Redesign of Natural Objects
S4.E9 The Mitigation of Competition
S4.E10 From Dancing Mice to Psychopaths

Season 5: Protest by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
S5.E1 The Few Who Dare
S5.E2 Clutch of Greed
S5.E3 Beneath Her Heart
S5.E4 Let the Children & the Childbearers Toll
S5.E5  Ease for Idle Millionaires
S5.E6 Manacled Slim Wrists
S5.E7 Gag or Throttle
S5.E8 Guillotines Decide
S5.E9 One Fettered Slave
S5.E10 To Right the Wrongs of Many

Quote

To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men. The human race
Has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised
Against injustice, ignorance, and lust,
The inquisition yet would serve the law,
And guillotines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare, must speak and speak again
To right the wrongs of many. Speech, thank God,
No vested power in this great day and land
Can gag or throttle. Press and voice may cry
Loud disapproval of existing ills;
May criticise oppression and condemn
The lawlessness of wealth-protecting laws
That let the children and childbearers toil
To purchase ease for idle millionaires.

Therefore I do protest against the boast
Of independence in this mighty land.
Call no chain strong, which holds one rusted link.
Call no land free, that holds one fettered slave.
Until the manacled slim wrists of babes
Are loosed to toss in childish sport and glee,
Until the mother bears no burden, save
The precious one beneath her heart, until
God’s soil is rescued from the clutch of greed
And given back to labor, let no man
Call this the land of freedom.

 

Edited July 30, 2017 by ElectricBoogaloo

[Captanne]

This is an amazing post/thread.

Thank you!

[bostonbarney]

For years I have admitted (only to myself) that I didn't understand a single episode title. 

Thanks!!