On the Point of Mistakes in Reading
I.A. Richards, in his How to Read A Page, wrote:
What is a mistake for a view of reading which does not acknowledge Reason as its Ruler? What would wrong and right mean here if we held that something else than Reason decides what we shall see as being true? What is that something else? Would it be as Ulysses said? —
“Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong—
between whose endless jar justice resides—
should lose their names, and so should justice too.
Then everything includes itself in power,
power into will, will into appetite;
and appetite, an universal wolf,
so doubly seconded with will and power, must make perforce an universal prey
and at last eat up himself.”
