Olney argues that the self so constituted in metaphor is a coherent and integral self, potential at first and destined, though no one can foredraw the exact shape of destiny, to be realized through many experiences until it shall become this one, and no other, self.

It is this gift of life that we are grateful to receive each waking moment, and so we give thanks, “for our lives, which are committed to Your power.”

She has a strictly dualist approach to morality.

One of the qualities of pure iron is that it does not rust easily.