Capitolo 95
the world is its oyster. Ireland anchors it is an island more remote than
Great Britain; but the Irishman has never been so insular as the
The English. I put down that partly to his/her Catholicism: his/her priests have
is wheels in a world system; its relationships have been with Douai,
St. Omer and Rome; his/her bishops have gone pilgrimages and they are sat on Vatican
Suggestions; his/her relatives are the MacMahonses in France, the O'Donnels in
Spain, the Taafes in Austria. In the days of the Regency this was also
then: look at Lever and his/her heroes! When England drank I bring, Clare Provinciale
drunk claret. But since then the famine, Ireland has expanded. Each
Irishman has cousins in Canada, in Australia, to New York, in St.
Francisco. The empire is Irish, with the exception of India; and India,
clearly it is a Scottish dependence. Irishmen and Scotchmen have anybody this way
feelings around Á. the foreign countries and his/her Foreigners as London they entertain. But
English never enough they find on the sense that each owes the necessities
divides the world in England and Elsewhere. At the end any English
it really understands the fact that to French and the Germans him he is a
foreigner. I have met John Bulls that you/he/she was spent years in Italy, but that
spoken of the farmers of Caesar and Dante and Leonardo and Garibaldi
with the tolerance disdainful one would feel toward a child or a
Island of Andaman. These Italians could build the bell tower of Giotto; it was able
paints the Transfiguration; you/he/she could carve the living marble on the graves of
the Physicians; you/he/she could produce the Life New; you/he/she could produce Galileo Galvani,,
Beccaria; but still--they was Foreign. Providence in its wisdom has
it decreed that they has to live Á. the foreign countries--in the moment in which he has decreed that a
understanding of the decimal system and his/her his/her own place in the world
you/he/she should eternally be imposed limitations on the intellect English.
XXI.
_WHY INGHILTERRA È BEAUTIFUL._