In every religion there is an element of the supernatural varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class race religion and geography.

The nature of catastrophe is after all reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins destroys wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light.

It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas wind at all angles and ever varying force arched surfaces head resistance ratio of weight to area and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists but belongs in varying degrees to all men.