Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Concentrate on his Caliban...


...For when we accept the tyranny of the real over the ideal,we deny the human spirit--the better half of learning and the better half of man. Instead, we concentrate on his Caliban half, making him a more efficient berry-gatherer, a more discriminating shell collector, or a more willing water carrier. The notion of spirit we dismiss as mythological, out-of-date, and irrelevant: at any rate, the fact it cannot be seen in space or under a microscope makes it, in the end, no longer a proper subject for instruction...
~ David Hicks, Norms and Nobility, p.13

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