Monday, December 28, 2015

It is common talk in these days that we ought to be imaginative, if only in order to be charitable. If a man commits forgery we must try to understand his temptations and his original trend. But no such mercy is generally shown to the enthusiast for ideas. The sins of the intolerant are seldom considered with any intellectual tolerance.
-The Apostle and the Wild Ducks
(collection of essays published posthumously in 1975)

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