“To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.” UnderstandingCapacityTests Author:George Gissing
“It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.” MovingIndividualNationsMankindStupidCapacityStupidityBaseness Book:The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft Source: The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft