Smoke (7) (English, German, Paperback)

Dieses historische Buch kann zahlreiche Tippfehler und fehlende Textpassagen aufweisen. Kaufer konnen in der Regel eine kostenlose eingescannte Kopie des originalen Buches vom Verleger herunterladen (ohne Tippfehler). Ohne Indizes. Nicht dargestellt. 1922 edition. Auszug: ...just so. Recall the lion, the wolf, the fox, the vulture, the hawk; and be so good as to consider how could they act otherwise? The two of you can hardly feed the children, as it is.'--My 'minnow' fell to thinking.--'Well, 'says he, ' in that case, the beast is no model for man.'--' Then I called him an idealist, and how angry he became He almost wept. I was obliged to soothe him, and to promise him that I would not betray him to his comrades. Is it a small thing to deserve the name of idealist? And therein lies the joke, that the present young generation has made a mistake in its calculations. It has imagined that the day of old-fashioned, dark, underground toil is past, that it was all well enough for their aged fathers to dig like tortoises; but for us such a role is humiliating, if you please, we will act in the open air, we will act... The dear innocents and even your children will not act; and would n't you like to go back to the cave, to the cave again, in the footprints of the old men?" A brief silence ensued. "I, my dear sir, am of this opinion," Potugin began again: --" that we are indebted to civilisation not alone for knowledge, art, and law, but for the fact that even the very sentiment of beauty and poetry is developed and enters into force under the influence of that same civilisation; and that so-called national, ingenuous, unconscious, creative genius is stufF and nonsense. Even in Homer traces are already discernible of a refined and wealthy civilisation; even love is ennobled thereby. The Slavyanophils would gladly hang me for such a heresy if they were not such tender-hearted creatures; but, nevertheless, I insist upon my view--and however much they may regale me with..."