Capitolo 27
question supposes fresh forms, as in to dissolve sights, in front of ours a lot
eyes. As it is conceivable Thin slums or possible East where every man
to plant his/her his/her own potato and cocoa-walnut-tree, and reaps their fruit
do you four-one hundred-fold up? As her Mrs. Grundies flourish where every woman is able
back her his/her own ten children on her ten-rood plot without help or
assistance from their indefinite fathers? What a need of carpentry
where some bamboos, cut at random you/they can be insured together with
straps in a comfortable chair? What an use of ceramic art where calabashes
hangs on every tree, and cocoa-crazy, with the water fresh and pure
among, immediately provides the cup and the filter and the Apollinaris
among?
I don't clearly intend to affirm, or that this tropical university
it will be enough for himself for all the necessities of cultured or rather of
men of educable. You/he/she must be takes, the entendu_ of _bien as an additional
raced to the Literae Humaniores. There are things that can only be
learnt in the places of meeting crowded and men's city--to London, Paris, New
York, Vienna. There are things that can only be learnt in the centers
of the culture or of artistic manual art--to Oxford, Monk of Baviera, Florence,
Venice, Rome. There is only one the Great Channel and only a Building of Pitti.
We have to have Shakespeare, Homer, Catullus, Dante; we have to have Phidias,
Among Angelic, Rafael, Mendelssohn; we have to have Aristotle Newton,,
Laplace, Spencer. But after all these, and first all these there are
anything more gone away for learning. Having read them before, we have to read
us out of them. We have to forget this whole modern and formal life; us
it has to detach himself/herself/themselves from this narrow world, cold, northern; we have to find
us does for finally facing, in Pacific islands or African the forests,
with the fundamental truths of simple naked nature. For that, in his
perfection, we have to go to the Tropics; and there, we will learn and
you unlearn a lot, while returning, without doubt with smashed faiths and broken