3 mr robertson davies ( may his death be postponed a thousand years ) has suggested in his deptford trilogy that our attitude toward magic and magicians in a large part indicates our attitude toward reality , and that our attitudes on the matter of reality indicate our attitudes toward the whole world of wonders in which we find ourselves c nothing but babes in the woods , even the oldest of us ( even mr davies himself , one must believe ) , where some of the trees bite and some confer great mystic favors c a property in their bark , no doubt .