From gums and spice, or else from straw and rottenness."
All we want is—
"The power to make them burn, express
What lights and warms henceforth, leaves only ash behind,
Howe'er the chance."A
A: Fifine at the Fair.
He had Pompilia's faith.
"And still, as the day wore, the trouble grew,
Whereby I guessed there would be born a star."
He goes forth in the might of his faith in the power of good, as if he wished once for all to try the resources of evil at their uttermost, and pass upon it a complete and final condemnation. With this view, he seeks evil in its own haunts. He creates Guido, the subtlest and most powerful compound of vice in our literature—except Iago, perhaps—merely in order that we may see evil at its worst; and he places him in an environment suited to his nature, as if he was carrying out an experimentum crucis. The