"What is courage?" said my uncle Roland, rousing himself from a reverie into which he had fallen, after the Sixth Book in this history had been read to our family circle. "What is courage?" he repeated more earnestly. "Is it insensibility to fear? That may be the mere accident of constitution; and if so, there is no more merit in being courageous than in being this table." . . . Edward George Bulwer-Lytton's classic, Third of Five volumes