Sublime

The burning of the Italian cornfields, the ruin of the Italian vines, were some thing more than actual; they were allegorical. They were the destruction of domestic and fruitful things, the withering of what was human before that inhumanity that is far beyond the human thing called cruelty.

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England achieved, at the beginning of her modern history, that one thing human imagination will always find heroic–the story of a small nationality.

Perhaps we give animal stories to children and encourage their interest in animals because we see children as inferior, mentally “primitive,” not yet fully human: so we see pets and zoos and animal stories as “natural” steps on the child’s way up to adult, exclusive humanity—rungs on the ladder from mindless, helpless babyhood to the full glory of

Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.

A guide expresses an understanding of the pain and frustration of their hero.