'...this I have resolved on, to wit, to run when I can, to go when I cannot run, and to creep when I cannot go.'

Saturday, 5 March 2011

Time will tell

Tunisia, Egypt, Libya - who knows how things will yet turn out? I was struck with these words of the poet Robert Southey: 'Few persons but those who lived in it can conceive or comprehend what the memory of the French Revolution was, nor what a visionary world seemed to open upon those who were just entering it. Old things seemed passing away, and nothing was dreamt of but the regeneration of the human race.'