Capitolo 31
early life, when still the character is plastic and the acute eye still:
portraits are formed in that light of the sun of diamond and bottom that they darken
arcs of grey and warm sky on which it is ever photographed for the
durable tablets of the human memory. John Stuart Mill in his
Autobiography lovingly indulges, me memory, on the deep effect
produced on him by his/her childish visits to Jeremy Bentham to Ford
Abbey in Dorsetshire, on the delicious sense of space and the liberty and
expansion generous date to his/her mind from the mere action to live and
moving himself/herself/itself in those grandiose rooms and airy and wide gardens. Every university
men have to seem again with pleasure of rather the same kind to the free one
memoirs airy of the quadrangles and rooms of ground of ownership common of Christ Church or
of Trinity. But in the tropical university each passes his/her time in
arcades of Greek or the cheerfulness of Pompeian: the palm-trees ripple and whisper
around his/her head as him he/she sits for fresh on his/her wide porch; the
humming-birds cast from flower to bloom on the delicate bouquets that
you crowd his/her sketch-room. I knew a lady of what a harvest of capital did
butterflies and moths to his/her his/her own supper-table simply forfeiting in
boxes of paper the bugs that have fluttered on the dessert lamp. Because, if
it comes to that, the a lot of same bread generally includes a whole
locker of entomological, and it contains in fragments the _disjecta membra_
of champions enough to provision whole cases of glass to severe South
Kensington. As it is that for an allurement to study the life where it is
richer and more abundant in his/her native beginning-place?
But especially in instructive importance I classify the advantage to see
human nature in his/her primitive outskirtses, away from the bleak one and
the cold influences of the to provide of tail-end of the Glacial epoch. Me suffered I admit
that cold has done a lot, while exceeding a lot, for human development--it has
is the mother of civilisation in rather the same sense that