George F. Hoar: “Mighty Jonathan Edwards,--the only genius since Dante akin to Dante,--could you not see that, if your world exist where…”

It is not too much to say that most of the main roads in England are Roman; but the very continuity of their use has caused this to be overlooked.

The language Statius uses is more simple than mine; but this is substantially the picture he gives: and I know of nothing that so impresses on the imagination the thunder of the power of the Roman Empire as this creation in the wilderness…

But I like to think he will be sent on some errands like that of the presence which came to Ben Adhem with a great wakening light, rich and like a lily in bloom, to tell him that the name of him who loved his fellow men led all the names…

To go fully into the role of the number three in British traditions would require a profound study; but it may be useful briefly to note its influence on the Bardic poetry-- the Triads, where the subjects are all grouped in threes.