Capitolo 8
slowly--very certainly, but oh, so slowly. You are young friend,
Ernest, and I am old increasing. You anxiously wait for the future with
the hope; I look again at the past with regret: then many gone years, this way
few, so very little fact. It will come, it will come as certainly
as the next glacial period, but I won't live to see him/it. I am standing
likes Moses on Pisgah; I see the promised earth in front of me; I look
down in the vineyards equally assigned, and the glebe to flow
with milk and honey in the distance; but I won't conduct her in
it; I won't also conduct her against the Canaanites; an anything else other than
I owe condurrLa in. But I am an old man, the Mr. Oswald, an old man
now, and I am speaking all of me--an anti-social makeup that we have
inherited by our fathers. To thing it is the special line of Your friend
Did Oxford, say, Ernest?'
'Oswald is a mathematician, gentleman', said Ernest, 'perhaps the greatest
mathematical among the youngest men in the whole university.'
'Ah! that is well. We want exact science. We want in clear way and defined
thinking. Biologists and physicists and mathematicians, those are
our best recruits, you can depend on him. We need the logic, not mere
gasoline. Our French friends and our Irish friends--I don't have anything in
the world to tell them; they is useful men ardent men,,
full of fire, full of enthusiasm, ready to do and to challenge anything--but
they misses of sea it ballasts. You cannot take the kingdom of storm sky.
The social revolution won't be brought defeasible from violence, it is
not to be brought by the most vivid eloquence; the victory
it will be in the end to the clearest brain and the thinnest intellect.
The political and orthodox economists are intelligent sophists; they disguises
and it confuses the truth the a lot of speciously; we have to have acute eyes and
acute noses to spy out and to smell out their tortuous fallacies. I am
you cheer you it is a mathematician, the Mr. Oswald. And so you have thought
on social problems?'
'I have read "Gold and the Proletariate, " Oswald modestly responded,