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After washing, the King rose for an instant; had his dressing-gown, a grand yellow silky article with silver flowerings, pulled off, and flung round his loins; upon which he sat down again, and," observe it, ye privileged of mankind, "the Change of Shirt took place!
That is real despotism the despotism that the East has known. Such is the political tradition of the Orient. And it is surely obvious that under such a tradition neither ordered government nor consistent progress is possible. Eastern history is, in fact, largely a record of sudden flowerings and equally sudden declines. A strong, able man cuts his way to power in a period of confusion and decay.
As such, he admired brute force but refused to employ it. He was civilized. Like many products of civilization, he was unaware of its blessings and unconcerned in its fate. Is it not a feature peculiar to civilization that it thinks of everything save war? That is why they are uprooted, these flowerings, each in its turn. My father told me; often one hears that remark, even from adults.
Britten's father had delighted his family by reading aloud from Dr. That and the BAB BALLADS were the inspiration of some of our earliest lucubrations. For an imaginative boy the first experience of writing is like a tiger's first taste of blood, and our literary flowerings led very directly to the revival of the school magazine, which had been comatose for some years.
Displaying for the first time in history the full capacity of the human mind! Had there been similar flowerings of genius amid forgotten Asiatic times? One doubts it; doubts if such brilliancy could ever anywhere have passed, and left no clearer record of its triumphs. Amid such splendor it seems captious to point out the flaw. Yet Athenian and all Greek civilization did ultimately decline.
Of this kind are, of course, those autumn flowerings of sentiment alluded to in Madame de Hauterive's letter.
The arts and other fair flowerings of the human mind may succumb to fierce climates, but theological zeal is one of those things which no extremes of temperature can subdue; it thrives equally well at the Poles or Equator, like that "Brown or Hanoverian rat" which Charles Waterton a glorious old zealot himself so cordially detested.
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