nothing but the high culture of a nation which lived in ideas;
while with us culture is just a plastering of rough walls--no part
of the structure! Why cannot we put education in touch with life,
try to show what human beings are driving at, what arrangements
they are making that they may live? It is all arrangements with us--
the frame for the picture, the sheath for the sword--and we leave
the picture and the sword to look after themselves. What a wretched
dilettante business it all is, keeping these boys practising
postures in the anteroom of life! Cannot we get at the real thing,
teach people to do things, fill their minds with ideas, break down
the silly tradition of needless wealth and absurd success? And I
must keep up all this farce, simply because I am fit for nothing
else--I cannot dig, to beg I am ashamed. Oh, hold your tongue, you
ass!" said Howard, apostrophising his rebellious mind. "Don't you
see where you are going? You can't do anything--it is all too big
and strong for you. You must just let it alone."






II

RESTLESSNESS