Laurence Binyon — a remark

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“One might say that man has been a monarch, looking to his subject-world only for service and for flattery, and just because of this lordly attitude he has failed to understand that subject-world, and, even more, has failed to understand himself.”

Criticising human arrogance towards nature as a barrier to self-knowledge. · Essay, The Flight of the Dragon (1911)

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Laurence Binyon

10 August 1869–10 March 1943

Laurence Binyon was born in Lancaster, England, on 10 August 1869, and died in Reading on 10 March 1943. During his lifetime he occupied an unusual and influential place in British cultural life: he was a poet, dramatist, translator, art historian, museum curator, critic, and lecturer. Yet public memory has narrowed…

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