Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Cervantes' Commentary on the Golden Age of Nature

"[T]he heavy curve of the plowshare had not yet dared to open or violate the merciful womb of our first mother, for she, without being forced, offered up, everywhere across her broad and fertile bosom,whatever would satisfy, sustain, and delight the children who then possessed her."

                                                                                                          Don Quixote