Capitolo 20
education will tropically be acquired what acquired can be never in
a moderate, still less in an arctic or academy of antarctic. This is more
especially true, I allow, in the particular cases of the biologist and
the sociologist; but it is also true in a rather less degree of the
common and mere course of arts and the middle and mere seeker after liberal
culture. Enormous aspects of nature and the human life exist what it is never able
is correctly understood adequately except in tropical countries; vivid
side-lights are thrown on our his/her own history and the history of our globe
what you/he/she cannot adequately be increased never of value except under of the search
and all garish rays too much of a tropical sun.
Every whenever I meet a cultivated man that knows his/her Tropics--and more
particularly one that you/he/she has known his/her Tropics during the formative period
of mental development, tells from eighteen thirty--I feel
instinctively that he possesses the certain keys of man and nature, certain
you suspect to the problems of the world we live in, not possessed in
anything like the same degree from the production of plant annual average and mere of
Oxford or of Heidelberg. I feel that we speak as Freemasons
together--us of the Tallest Brotherhood that has adored the sun,
Deum_ of _praesentiorem, in his/her his/her own nearer times.
Allow me to start from positing an extreme parallel. As evidently inadequate
it is the conception of the life enjoyed more anymore by the Laplander to the agenda or the
Intelligent Fuegian! Also supposes him you/he/she has attended the school of mission of
his/her native village, and you/he/she is learned in the whole culture of there the
Egyptians, above to the extreme level of the sixth standard, still as
weak has to be its idea of the planet on which he stirs! How much it owes
its horizon is caged, it crowded, it confined from the cold and it snows, the
the obscurity and poverty, of the naked earth around him! Him alive in a dark cold
world of difficult vegetation and the animal and scarce life: a world where human