Brother Copas
By Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
25 Feb, 2020
In a former book of mine, Sir John Constantine, I expressed (perhaps extravagantly) my faith in my fellows and in their capacity to treat life as a noble sport. In Brother Copas, I try to express something of that correlative scorn which must come so
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In a former book of mine, Sir John Constantine, I expressed (perhaps extravagantly) my faith in my fellows and in their capacity to treat life as a noble sport. In Brother Copas, I try to express something of that correlative scorn which must come sooner or later to every man who puts his faith into practice. I have that faith still, but that:
He who would love his fellow men
Must not expect too much of them"
This is good counsel if bad rhyme. I can only hope that both the faith and the scorn are sound at the core. Less