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It is when we use our fanciful
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his curses, have supported the myth against science. When a man
and tries to compel also others to play a part, he becomes positively
there is in pretending that he is real, because such an attitude of
was born, there was myth; before men could think, they dreamed. It was
child's imagination is more active than its reason. It is easier for
wild flight of fancy is checked only by experience. It is reflection
and subduing its restless spirit. It is, then, as we grow older, and,
fact and fiction, between history and myth.
In childhood we need playthings, and the more fantastic and _bizarre_
of castles in the air--gorgeous and clothed with the azure hue of the
gods, and other invisible and airy beings. We covet the rainbow. We
ground until we have reached the years of discretion.
I know there are those who wish they could always remain children,--living
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