Quote by: Henry de Vere Stacpoole

When we have learnt to call storms, storms, and death, death, and birth, birth, when we have mastered the sailor's horn-book and Mr Piddington's law of cyclones, Ellis's anatomy and Lewer's midwifery, we have already made ourself half blind. We have become hypnotized by words and names. We think in words and names, not in ideas; the commonplace has triumphed, the true intellect is half crushed.


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  • NameHenry de Vere Stacpoole
  • DescriptionBritish writer
  • BornApril 9, 1863
  • DiedApril 12, 1951
  • CountryIreland
  • ProfessionWriter