Capitolo 45
understands. This development was finally checked; thing we can call the
the natural occupation of the face culminated. Civilization started, and as
soon as the civilization it started, the rebate in natural expressiveness started
with him. Civilization gradually supplanted the primordial necessities; it contrived
other means for doing what had frankly made alone the face,
marvelously. When you can stamp news on paper, you can stop stamping
news on the living expression. Besides, the purpose of the civilization is
you develop in us the conscience not to express, but to suppress. His/her purpose
it is not to reveal, but to conceal, thought and the emotion; not to do the
you approve an illuminate-light but a scarf of the inside candle anything,
that candle for the time can be. All of our dominant passions, good or I win,
noble or ignoble, we publicly try now to hide. This is the civilization. And
this way the face, while having been beginning expressionless in kind, he/she minds
through the civilization to become again expressionless.
"As few faces do some that one of us know that frankly it radiates the great one
passions and humors of human nature! What few is left of this venerable old man
awful play is the poor pantomime of the stage. Insane of search,
crosses the roads. Sees everywhere faces masquerades, while saying no more than
possible to those around them of that in which they boasts him of or that of which they suffers.
It seeks modern galleries of portrait. You or it finds portraits of men or
women that radiate the oppressive passions the vital humors of ours,
galled and elevated nature? It is not long once since the Centuries Averages.
In the stretching of centuries of history tightens him to nothing and the Middle one
Centuries are as the more first hours of our his/her own historical day. But it doesn't have there
is a change it equalizes inside that short time? It didn't do the medieval one
portrait-painters withdraw in their babysitters the great humors as no painter
does it now withdraw them? How many painters of to-day can find the great humors in