The Living Age

The Living Age: "We do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life it would be like hearing the gross grow and the squirrel's heart beat and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence As it is the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity Vol i p 351"