Its only fault is that it has no foundation.

For I defy you to imagine yourself what you would have been in the epoch of which you speak.

We say frequently, 'If I had lived a hundred years ago.' We forget that a hundred years ago we should not have been the same; that we should not have had the same ideas, the same tastes, nor the same requirements.

It is almost the same as imagining that you could think like a bird or a serpent." "One could very well imagine what it would be never to have been born," interrupted.

Alba Steno.
She uttered the sentence in so peculiar a manner that the discussion begun by Hafner was nipped in the bud.
The words produced their effect upon the chatter of the idlers who only partly believed in the ideas they put forth.