Word: handicraftsman
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Blind, Deaf Blockhead. Fyodor has no politics (except to prefer a regime where "there is no equality and no authorities either"); he does not hanker for the Return; he does not brood on the past or hope for the future. His fellow emigres regard him as "a useless handicraftsman," a "trickster" and an "arabesquer," and he in turn regards the typical Russian emigre intellectual as "blind like Milton, deaf like Beethoven, and a blockhead to boot...
...unknown quatrain by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) came to light when an 18th Century potter's wheel was presented to Manhattan's Museum of the Peaceful Arts. Attached to the wheel, which had inspired Longfellow at the age of 16, were these lines: No handicraftsman's art Can to our art compare; We potters make our pots Of what we potters...
...longer remote. One of the highest college-bred men of the present time is Prof. Huxley, and one of the strongest advocates of college and university training for all whose opportunities and means will permit them to enjoy it. He counts himself, and actually is, pre-eminently a handicraftsman whose life is mainly spent in his workshop, and his writings and addresses are what he learns from his own work. As civilization generally has advanced, so that society has been willing to accord a true value to mechanical pursuits, and invest them with the humane Interests which they rightfully claim...
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