![]() ![]() ![]() “And the goblins-they had not really been there at all? They were only the phantoms of cowardice and unbelief? One healthy human impulse would dispel them? Men like the Wilcoxes, or ex-President Roosevelt, would say yes. ![]() It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.” It is unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. ![]() The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. It assumes that preparation against danger is in itself a good, and that men, like nations, are the better for staggering through life fully armed. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent. The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is no that of a man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. With infinite effort we nerve ourselves for a crisis that never comes. Actual life is full of false clues and sign-posts that lead nowhere. “Margaret realized the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly sequence that has been fabricated by historians. ![]()
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