The chief mark of modern man has been that he has gone through the landscape with his eyes glued to a guidebook, and could actually deny in the one anything he could not find in the other… By a weird mesmerism, what people read has a sort of magic power over their sight. It lays […]

Veracity has nothing to do with violence, one way or the other. One historian may prefer to say, ‘The Emperor Nero set on foot several conspiracies against the life of Agrippina his mother, and expressed satisfaction when the final attempt was successful.’ Another may say, ‘The bloody and treacherous tyrant foully murdered his own mother, […]