Quote#Wisdom
Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum: it keeps swinging from…
Quote byEugene Field · 1850–1895
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Writings in Prose and Verse of Eugene Field: The love affairs of a Bibliomaniac (1896), Ch. IV : The Mania of Collecting Seizes Me, p. 44.
English (original)
Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum: it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. Within the compass of five generations we find the Puritan first an uncompromising believer in demonology and magic, and then a scoffer at everything involving the play of fancy.
— Eugene Field
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