Why Does The Past Look So Enticing

The Likeness Of The World? A Shadow! And World's Glory? A Dream!

The Graceful Flowers Of Innocence Are More Valuable Than The Laurel Crown Of Fame.

North And West Have Always Vied For Power And Territory, But Their Recent Competition As To Which One Is More Insidious Of The Twohas Been More Peaceful.

In Early Times, Before The Floods Swept Across The World, There Was Life, Albeit Odd, As One Can See From The Fossils Of Mammoth Bones, And There Was The Regime Of Prince Metternich.

When We Interpret Nature, We Refer Phenomena That Are Rarely Entirely Unintelligible Back To Something That Actually Exists, But Is Equally Unintelligible.