Saturday, May 02, 2020
No Gift or Inclination
Stella Bowen (1893-1947), Drawn from Life (1941; rpt. London: Virago, 1984), p. 224:
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I was born without the slightest desire to instruct or to reform society. To preach or convert or persuade opinion is a thing for which I have no gift or inclination.Id., p. 227:
The difficulty is to avoid the perils of fanaticism as well as the paralysis that sometimes comes of seeing both sides at once. The loftiest wisdom ought surely to be able to see every side of everything simultaneously, but this kind of vision would seem to have no place in the world to-day. It belongs to a state of health and equilibrium, and society has become mortally sick.
