"By a quaint paradox, we generally miss the meaning of simple stories because we are not subtle enough to understand t…"

"We can find, for instance, a very good working case in those old puritanical nursery tales about the terrible punishm…"

"Now the trouble of the nineteenth century very largely came from the loss of this; the loss of what we may call the n…"

"The modern sceptic was drugged against all that was natural in the supernatural. And this was why the modern tyrant m…"

"There is one idea of this kind that runs through most popular tales (those, for instance, on which Shakespeare is so …"

"But the modern capitalist did not read fairy–tales, and never looked for the little omens at the turnings of the road…"

"The experiment of Individualism—the keeping of the worker half in and half out of work—was far too ingenious not to c…"

"The time came at last when the rather reckless breeding in the abyss below ceased to be a supply, and began to be som…"

"Thus all the factors—the bodily exhaustion, the harassing fear of hunger, the reckless refuge in sexuality, and the b…"

"'But there was another way. And towards this the employer’s ideas began, first darkly and unconsciously, but now more…"