The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.
Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.
Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
