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whatever we believe to be a true picture, we treat as if it were the environment itself.
In the same way we can best understand the furies of war and politics by remembering that almost the whole of each party believes absolutely in its picture of the opposition, that it takes as fact, not what is, but what it supposes to be the fact.
Believe what you suppose to. E the facts
Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.
no man is a hero to his valet.
It is a formal monument to the state-craft of federalism, hardly the biography of a person.
Stories about Hamilton are...
By the same mechanism through which heroes are incarnated, devils are made.
At almost all other times, and even in war when it is deadlocked, a sufficiently greater range of feelings is aroused to establish conflict, choice, hesitation, and compromise. The symbolism of public opinion usually bears, as we shall see, [Footnote: Part V.] the marks of this balancing of interest.
Our first concern with fictions and symbols is to forget their value to the existing social order, and to think of them simply as an important part of the machinery of human communication.
Miss Sherwin of Gopher Prairie,
