Notes 117
What should it mean to me that Herman Melville was a greater writer than C. S. Lewis?
Not to make something look better, but to raise oneself to see better.
“With the ancients . . . it was all or nothing, with no fear of disaster [including death]. The fall of states, cities, and kings was considered glorious. That is something utterly alien to us.”—Burckardt, Judgments on History and Historians, I, 4.
Not to make something look better, but to raise oneself to see better.
“With the ancients . . . it was all or nothing, with no fear of disaster [including death]. The fall of states, cities, and kings was considered glorious. That is something utterly alien to us.”—Burckardt, Judgments on History and Historians, I, 4.
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