Weaving Wild Imaginations III

“The imagination seeks out the ideal, and beholds its beauty.  In doing so it penetrates farther to the truth than does the sloth of cynicism.” 

And Anthony Esolen continues tongue-in-cheek, 

“If we want to ensure that our young people grow up with the cramped imagination of the cynic, we should if we cannot ignore the past completely,  at least magnify the tarnish on those who came before us.  We should emulate God’s creation of man in His image and likeness, but in reverse, as through the wrong end of a telescope.  We should make everything small – like ourselves.  That will leave us with quite a sense of moral and intellectual superiority.  And that’s more deadly to the imagination than were the spears of Hannibal’s soldiers to the Romans at Cannae, centuries ago.”

--from Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of your Child

--statue of David Livingston, missionary and explorer, near his boyhood home