helot-slave

Updated: June 1, 2025

This "never doubting good will triumph" is really, when one examines it, nothing but the inverted prostration of the helot-slave, glad to have been allowed to get so totally drunk! It blusters and swaggers, but at heart it is base and ignoble.

John Cowper Powys - Visions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions