This is a quote from a memoir by Dorothy Wordsworth, reflecting on a trip she took with two famous poets, her brother, William Wordsworth, and their similarly gifted companion, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. We sat upon a bench, placed for the sake of one of these views, whence we looked down upon the waterfall, and over the open country ... A lady and gentleman, more expeditious tourists than ourselves, came to the spot; they left us at the seat, and we found them again at another station above the Falls. Coleridge, who is always good-natured enough to enter into conversation with anybody whom he meets in his way, began to talk with the gentleman, who observed that it was a majestic waterfall. Coleridge was delighted with the accuracy of the epithet, particularly as he had been settling in his own mind the precise meaning of the words grand, majestic, sublime, etc., and had discussed the subject with William at some length the day before. “Yes, sir,” says Coleridge, “it is a majesti
Well, money is crucial to an economy. Countries where there is little of it don't fare so well on the global stage. As a practical matter, their people and prospects are limited. The sanctions approach is better than warfare. If, and only, if it produces a desired result. Not knowing how much wealth is accessible to the Russian autocrat, may be one of the unknown unknowns. If his avowed obliteration of Ukraine goes on, the sanction solution will be pointless. Likewise, I think, should be do something really stupid.
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