Great teaching helps a people to see a wider horizon
Great teaching helps a people to take a long view, to see a wider horizon. Boromir sees only Minas Tirith; he is representative of the great majority of people who are staunchly committed to their own tribe but have little capacity for understanding the bigger picture. If an advantage for their own group appears, it must be a gift from God; so goes the logic.
–
Fleming Rutledge.
(2004)
The Battle for Middle-Earth. pg. 189