from the pen of Walter Bagehot:
…The notion of a far-seeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a fancy generated by the pride of the human intellect to which facts give no support.
Thank you, Lex.

… Not “seen as beautiful”; but “beautiful, seen.”
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from the pen of Walter Bagehot:
…The notion of a far-seeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a fancy generated by the pride of the human intellect to which facts give no support.
Thank you, Lex.
for all of us with blogs.
For me, as much as for any with a heart to heed.
Love. You can know all the math in the ‘Verse, but take a boat in the air you don’t love, she’ll shake you off just as sure as the turning of worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells ya she’s hurtin’ ‘fore she keens. Makes her home.
You can learn much about someone… from the stories they love.