“Only the race of man raises his head high, and lightly stands his body upright, and obser
“Only the race of man raises his head high, and lightly stands his body upright, and observes the earth beneath him.”—from The Consolation of Philosophy (c. 524 A.D.), the classic and influential work by the Roman senator Boethius (c. 477-524 A.D.), rendered into modern English by Thomas Powers.Powers’s presentation is based on the original Latin as well as on the fourteenth-century translation by Geoffrey Chaucer and two other English translations. An excerpt can be found in our Summer Issue: The Wild.You can also download the entire translation for free on our website here. -- source link
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