Babylon and Anglo-Saxon England.

From: Studies in the Literary Imagination | Date: March 22, 2003| Author: Scheil, Andrew P. | Copyright information 
   The instinct of the mind, the purpose of nature, betrays itself in 
   the 
   use we make of the signal narrations of history. Time dissipates to 
   shining ether the solid angularity of facts. No anchor, no cable, no 
   fences avail to keep a fact a fact. Babylon, Troy, Tyre, Palestine, 
   and 
   even early Rome are passing already into fiction. The Garden of Eden, 
   the sun standing still in Gibeon, is poetry thenceforward to all 
   nations. Who cares what the fact was, when ...

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