Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
6859
AUTHOR:
E M Forster
QUOTATION:
It is the one orderly product our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths; it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden … the best evidence we can give of our dignity.
ATTRIBUTION:
To PEN Congress, quoted by Huw Wheldon Monitor Macdonald 62
SUBJECTS:
Communications & the Arts: Literature: Writers & Editors
