What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?
You don’t question Providence.
If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.
Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercise, even over the appearance of external objects.
Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts.
The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.
Did we create a modern myth,
Did we imagine half of it,
Would happen in a thought from now?
Things were too unsettled, and changing rapidly, and, well, no one could say where they might be in a year.