“A great myth is relevant as long as the predicament of humanity lasts; as long as humanity lasts. It will always work, on those who can receive it, the same catharsis.”

"Haggard Rides Again", in Time and Tide, Vol. XLI (3 September 1960)

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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963

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