...possible, nor desirable. This chapter should be read in conjunction with Brown & Robbennolt on Apology. To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite: / To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; / ... / Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; / This, like thy glory ... is to be / Good, great...

...was of his own disillusionment with history and its promise of realizing a Utopian political vision: "To hope till hope creates from its own wreck the thing it contemplates...." ....Beth will remember too how we listened together to a musical favorite of hers and Nobby's, Brahms'...