Capitolo 33
quantity to sustain the family without more he/she works that in England
it would pay for his/her carbons of kitchen; where the hut but a refuge it is from
rain or a bed-curtain for night, and where the provisionings of free of tax sun
the place of a fire of sketch-room the whole circle of year, and it heats the
sprinkle for the bath of his/her/their child to nothing the braid! If there is some man
who doesn't sympathize with his/her dark brother when he sees him/it so to
house in his/her airy building--some man with that it doesn't fraternize from nearby
his/her kind when so it brought to face with our primitive existence, I do
don't envy him his/her ethics of austere and wild Caledonian. The beach-hairdresser
instinct should be strong in all the healthy minds. Or if that sincere way of
putting by chance it offends his/her brothers weakest, I/you/he/she allow us to say rather, the
the Lotus-eaters' spirit. For the man that doesn't want to eat of the
Lotus is become once only in his/her life too civilized: the iron of the
The era of Gradgrind of the universal competition and payment from results it has
entered deeply to in his/her sordid soul. He wants a course of Egypt and
Tahiti.
Oh, yes; I know what you will object, and me suffered the accord:
the influence of the Tropics is from anybody means an ascetic one. They, minds
rather to encourage a certain genial and friendly tolerance of everybody
possible human forms of society--also the lowest. Essentially They is
democrat, not to say socialist and revolutionary in tone. From
demolishing all of us to the fundamental truths of the life, separately from his
conventions, they perhaps produces a rather the hasty impatience of Court
suit and the regulations of the God Ciambellano. But, the contra_ of _per, them
I/you/he/she teach us to feel that every man, if the black, makes brown, or white, it is
very human, and every woman and child, if possible, also a trifle more
then. Bad as everything it is, there is still in economics and tropical
more than the Gospel according to St. John and less than Adamo Smith,