When We Realise Our Oneness

To Me In My Childhood, Elves And Fairies Of All Sorts Were Very Real Things, And My Dolls Were As Really Children As I Was Myself A Child.

My First Serious Attempts At Writing Were Made In 1868, And I Took Up Two Very Different Lines Of Composition; I Wrote Some Short Stories Of A Very Flimsy Type, And Also A Work Of A Much More Ambitious Character, 'the Lives Of The Black Letter Saints.'

Liberty Is A Great Celestial Goddess, Strong, Beneficent, And Austere, And She Can Never Descend Upon A Nation By The Shouting Of Crowds, Nor By Arguments Of Unbridled Passion, Nor By The Hatred Of Class Against Class.

This Old Testament - Containing Error, Folly, Absurdity And Immorality - Is By English Statute Law Declared To Be Of Divine Authority, A Blasphemy - If There Were Anyone To Be Blasphemed - Blacker And More Insolent Than Any Word Ever Written Or Penned By The Most Hotheaded Freethinker.

A Myth Is Far Truer Than A History, For A History Only Gives A Story Of The Shadows, Whereas A Myth Gives A Story Of The Substances That Cast The Shadows.