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Updated: June 7, 2025
So we met in my cabin the Princess, and the bo'sun, and a boy from the real-life lot, and a man from among the book-men, and a fellow from No-man's-land, and myself in the chair. The bo'sun had taken part in so many cuttings-out during his past career that practically he did all the talking, and was the Council of War himself. It was to be an affair of boats, he explained.
Truly, Master Holofernes, the epithets are sweetly varied, like a scholar at the least, but, etc..... Hol. Oh thou monster ignorance, how deformed dost thou look! Dull. You two are book-men. Can you tell me by your wit, etc. Nath. A rare talent. Dull. If a talent be a claw, look how he claws him with a talent. Hol.
But science will soon press forward in her heavenly ordained mission, borne upon the shoulders of some youthful hero, and once more the wise book-men of the gown and slipper, who, surrounded with their tomes on tomes of learned digests, are fast approaching the hour when they had better prepare their last wills and testaments, will again be distanced in the race and doomed to argue technicalities.
Lans deo bone intelligo. Hol. Enter Armado, etc. Nath. Videsne quis venit? Ho. Video et gaudeo. Arm. Chirra! Hol. Quare Chirra not Sirrah! But the first appearance of these two book-men, as Dull takes leave them to call them in this scene, is not less to the purpose.
"I doubt," said M'Leod, "whether any thing effectual can be done till they have a better education." "Education! Pshaw! There it is now these book-men," cried Hardcastle: "Why, my dear sir, can any man alive, who knows this country, doubt that the common people have already too much education, as it is called a vast deal too much?
These two will come into the Park together; and perhaps we shall not be able to detect any very marked difference in their modes of expressing themselves. They are two ordinary, quiet-looking personages enough. There is nothing remarkable in their appearance; their coming here is not forced. There are deer in this Park; and 'book-men' as they are, they have a taste for sport also it seems.
Somewhere in his make-up there was a strange twist or quirk. Perhaps it was a recoil from his environment and training, or from the tempered seed of his ancestors, who had been book-men generation preceding generation; but at any rate, he found enjoyment in being down in the working-class world.
To them nearly all the life of the world is in letters, and I suppose they would be astonished if they knew how little the thoughts of the majority of people are occupied with books, and with all that vast thought circulation which is the vital current of the world to book-men. Newspapers have reached their present power by becoming unliterary, and reflecting all the interests of the world.
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