The Defendant by G. K. Chesterton - ZyngRule ebook

But imagination, the function of the historian, cannot let so great an element alone. By the cheap revolutionary it is commonly supposed that imagination is a merely rebellious thing, that it has its chief function in devising new and fantastic republics. But imagination has its highest use in a retrospective realization. The trumpet of imagination, like the trumpet of the Resurrection, calls the dead out of their graves. Imagination sees Delphi with the eyes of a Greek, Jerusalem with the eyes of a Crusader, Paris with the eyes of a Jacobin, and Arcadia with the eyes of a Euphuist. The prime function of imagination is to see our whole orderly system of life as a pile of stratified revolutions. In spite of all revolutionaries it must be said that the function of imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange; not so much to make wonders facts as to make facts wonders. To the imaginative the truisms are all paradoxes, since they were parado --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The ZyngRule ebook reader is a modeless, full screen reader -- no toolbar to consume valuable screen real estate, or switching back and forth between full screen and toolbar screen modes. Instead, use the large menu button at the top-left or top-right to access the menu. The menu button remains invisible until you touch it. * Autoscrolling -- scroll through the book without touching the screen. When combined with large sized fonts, this reduces the fatigue associated with reading small fonts. Pull the screen back towards you to pause scrolling. * Easy built-in dictionary -- expand your vocabulary by simply swiping across a word. * Fast text search * Annotate sections of the book using the Text Bookmarks and Notes features. You can also email the notes for further editing. * Adjust font line space for more comfortable reading * Stylish, animated graphics and a plethora of fonts and colors * Realistic paper texture backgrounds for book pages * Super-fast, instantaneous loading of chapters and bookmarks * Use fast, colored, and animated bookmarks or easy to read Text Bookmarks * Sound effects * Night mode support * Night mode text brightness control * Background brightness control * Page Up/Page Down speed control * Book catalog to read previews of other books