We must then clear our minds of all notion that the hoplolatry of the Greeks implies anthropomorphism.

When Heke and Kawiti were making an attack on the Europeans in the Bay of Islands, the native parties, in taking up their positions before daybreak, communicated their movements to one another by imitating the cry of the morepork, which the sentries were accustomed to hear, and of which they therefore took no notice.

They are everywhere today, whistled in the streets, broadcasted, jukeboxed, danced to in ballrooms.

Lermontov, of course, was a Byronist, but his great , original poetic power made him a Byronist of a particular kind - a kind of mocking, capricious, and fastidious Byronist, eternally disbelieving even in his own inspiration and[…]