text:  His looking is resembled to that of a griffin because in that monster imagined at or beyond the verge of nature the ferocity of a devouring destroying creature can be conceived as more wild and grim and fearful than in nature's known offspring in all of whom some kindlier sparkles from the heart of the great mother some beneficently-implanted instincts are thought of as tempering and qualifying the pure animal fierceness and rage