Capitolo 72
parrots, and finally results, in nine cases out of ten, with only
enough flouring of Greek and the Latin grammar to have acquired a
life-long disgust for Horace and an incapability of inconquerable for
AEschylus that understands. One year in Italy with their eyes opens it would be
value more than three to Oxford; and six months in the fields with a
lens of platyscopic would teach them strange things on the world around
theirs that the whole Harrow long terms and Winchester have failed
discover to them. But that would involve some trouble to the teacher.
That that an adversity that is that we should be forced so to leave ours
the education of boys interferes with their education!
XVI.
POLITICAL _THE PUPA._
I have picked up on the heath the chrysalis of a common English
butterfly. As I sit on the heather and I attentively turn him/it on, while
it twists him in my hands, I cannot help thinking as from near it resembles to
the present condition of our British republic. It is an insipidity,
indeed, to say that "this has an age of transition." But it would be
more truth and more graph perhaps to put him/it that this has an age in that
England, and for the matter of what every other European country as
well you/he/she is passing through anything as the stage of chrysalis in his,
evolution.
But, before everybody, clearly face you understand what is driving a chrysalis
to? It intends more than it seems; the change that follows inside that
impassive case is a great quantity deeper than the most greater part of people they imagine.
When the caterpillar is alone ready to turn into a butterfly you/he/she lies from
for once, full of the inside emotion, and it slowly feels all of his/her organs
one to the time that melts in a kind of pulp of indistinguishable protoplasmic;
chaos precedes the reestablishment defined of a fresh form of order.
Edges and parts and nervous system all disappear for once and then,
gradually grows again in new and it altered types. The caterpillar, if it
filosofizzato on his really state to all (what it seems the to be very small