Only A Great Mind That Is Overthrown

The Reason Why Research Is Like Sculpting From Memory Is That In Neither Is There A Concrete Visible Subject To Copy Directly. The Subject - As Sculptors Themselves Are Fond Of Saying - Is Hidden In The Block Of Material.

Take A Portion Of Wit, And Fashion It Fit, Like A Needle, With Point And With Eye: A Point That Can Wound, An Eye To Look Round, And At Folly Or Vice Let It Fly

The Mind Tends To Run Along The Groove Of One's Intention And Overlook The Actual Expression.

History, Like A Vast River, Propels Logs, Vegetation, Rafts, And Debris; It Is Full Of Live And Dead Things, Some Destined For Resurrection; It Mingles Many Waters And Holds In Solution Invisible Substances Stolen From Distant Soils.

We Cannot Appreciate The Art Of Any Age Without First Acquiring An Equivalent Of The Experience It Depicts.