Domaris

I don't post here often but some of my more literary leanings still need a home, and this imagery spoke to me.  

"My gender is a philopatric sea turtle, ponderously making its way to the familiar shores to settle in comfortably and await the tides." — Me.

Some of this is clearly a product of its time - Eurocentric point of view notwithstanding, there is much here to appreciate.

"Viewed from within, each religious or national fanaticism stands for a good; but in its outward operation it produces and becomes an evil. It is possible, no doubt, that its agents are really so far apart in nature and ideals that, like men and mosquitoes, they can stand in physical relations only, and if they meet can meet only to poison or to crush one another. More probably, however, humanity in them is no merely nominal essence; it is definable ideally, as essences are defined, by a partially identical function and intent. In that case, by studying their own nature, they could rise above their mutual opposition, and feel that in their fanaticism they were taking too contracted a view of their own souls and were hardly doing justice to themselves when they did such great injustice to others."  

"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."