Imagination Has Brought Mankind Through The Dark

Folklore, Legends, Myths And Fairy Tales Have Followed Childhood Through The Ages, For Every Healthy Youngster Has A Wholesome And Instinctive Love For Stories Fantastic, Marvelous And Manifestly Unreal. The Winged Fairies Of Grimm And Andersen Have Brought More Happiness To Childish Hearts Than All Other Human Creations.

Familiarity With Any Great Thing Removes Our Awe Of It. The Great General Is Only Terrible To The Enemy; The Great Poet Is Frequently Scolded By His Wife; The Children Of The Great Statesman Clamber About His Knees With Perfect Trust And Impunity; The Great Actor Who Is Called Before The Curtain By Admiring Audiences Is Often Waylaid At The Stage Door By His Creditors.

…and The Next Moment All Of Them Were Filled With Wonder. For They Saw, Standing In Just The Spot The Screen Had Hidden, A Little Old Man, With A Bald Head And A Wrinkled Face, Who Seemed To Be As Much Surprised As They Were.

As The Years Pass, And We Look Back On Something Which, At The Time, Seemed Unbelievably Discouraging And Unfair, We Come To Realize That, After All, God Was At All Times On Our Side. The Eventual Outcome Was, We Discover, By Far The Best Solution For Us, And What We Thought Should Have Been To Our Best Advantage, Would In Reality Have Been Quite Detrimental.

No Thief, However Skillful, Can Rob One Of Knowledge, And That Is Why Knowledge Is The Best And Safest Treasure To Acquire.