Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, Utopia is only the shadow of a dream.

Vernon Parrington (1871-1929) American historian

Main Currents in American Thought, Vol. 2 “The Romantic Revolution, 1800–1860,” Part 4, ch. 2 “Nathaniel Hawthorne” (1927)
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