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...material plane. 'Government is the penalty for original sin.' Given the imperfection of human nature, the only way to abolish strife and injustice on a material plane is to restrict freedom there. In a powerful, healthy, overpopulated world, even the proletarian's freedom to beget children will no longer be his private affair, but will be regulated by the state...
...made himself sterile. The forms and colors with which he 'animates' his canvas can never link themselves to his visual experience; they can only express his visual imagination. That thrilling orgasm in which a Titian or a Fra Angelico can make the visible world his own and beget a work of art that combines the essence of himself with the essence of the place and the time he lives in, that miracle is denied him, and all he can offer in its place is his innocence, his celibacy, his immunity from the temptations of the world...
...Immense Fun." Somehow the astounding Roosevelt also found the time & energy to attend Harvard ("I am very glad I am not a Yale freshman; the hazing there is pretty bad. The fellows too seem to be a much more scrubby set than ours"), to marry twice and beget six children ("Nothing else . . . can take the place of family life"), to climb the Matterhorn ("I was anxious to go up it because ... a man . . . can fairly claim to have taken his degree as, at any rate, a subordinate kind of mountaineer"), to become a rancher in North Dakota ("These westerners have...
...time U.S. writers changed their tune. To get them off on the right track, he offers the testimony of Historian Jacques Barzun (who does his teaching at Columbia): "[Teachers] look like any other Americans; they are no more round-shouldered than bank presidents, they play golf . . . they marry and beget children, laugh and swear and have appendicitis in a thoroughly normal way. They are far less absent-minded than waiters in restaurants...
...From Hamlet's famous advice to the players: ". . . Do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness...