What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that two stick ...out above all others. One is his curious and apparently incurable incompetence--his congenital inability to do any difficult thing easily and well, whether it be isolating a bacillus or writing a sonata. The other is his astounding susceptibility to fears and alarms--in short, his hereditary cowardice.... There is no record in history of any Anglo-Saxon nation entering upon any great war without allies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The things that were coming to be talked about Have come and gone and are still remembered... As being recent. There is a grain of curiosity At the base of some new thing, that unrolls Its question mark like a new wave on the shore.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »