William Quan Judge, the editor of The Path (1892), saw no excuse for his magazine's existence, and he gives our all-time favorite reason: "For there is nothing new under the sun and we are like squirrels repeating the words spoken by bodies long since dead which were inhabited by ourselves whom now we fail to recognize."  Not that The Path was ceasing publication, mind you.  That's simply how Mr. Judge began Volume Seven of his magazine.