In our horrid world of 2024, who could be fairly described as brutish? How about the Trump-worshipping Evangelicals in Iowa?
“Maybe we are a long way from being made in God’s image, but Stella, my sister, there has been some progress since then! Such things as art, poetry and music…such kinds of new light have come into the world since then! In some kinds of people some tenderer feelings have had some little beginning! That we have got to make grow! And cling to, and hold as our flag in this dark march toward whatever it is we’re approaching…Stella, don’t…don’t hang back with the brutes!”