“ Must we make battlegrounds out of our children? ”
The fear of the crowd then came to Will, with the taste of a copper penny placed on his tongue; and it was not the fear that they were under divine judgement, but that they were not, and could never be.
~ Sarah Perry
Not even knowledge takes all the strangeness from the world
If a reasoned creator set the stars in their place then we must be capable of understanding them - we must also be creatures of reason, of order!
It was necessary to be afraid in order to have courage.