"Here are told the stories of these pictures of the imagination, of
magic and romance. Yet they were gravely chosen withal, and for
reasons manifold.... What if they be but dreams? 'We are such stuff as
dreams are made of.' What if they be but magic and romance? These
things are not ancient and dead, but modern and increasing. For
wherever a man learns power over Nature, there is Magic; wherever he
carries out an ideal into Life there is Romance."
Patrick Geddes:
"_The Interpreter_."