Balancing Idealism and Pragmatism
One man sees a righteous war. The other sees machines that grind grain. Both are looking at the same field. Sancho is not the killjoy of the novel. He is the second instrument. Without him the charge has no witness who can still name mills after the lance snaps.
Key Insight
Balance is not splitting the difference. It is refusing to fire the person who keeps saying the unsponsored name of the object.
“did I not tell your worship to mind what you were about, for they were only windmills?”Full analysis
