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Kings Treasuries
- SPOILER: They’re books.
- Wants more libraries, art galleries, natural history museums
- Education and moral training will give you power over the weak and illiterate (kingly power)
- “Inevitable and eternal” leadership of the morally sound
- What should men be like?
- Calm and benevolent power
- Love of nature, science
- Compassionate
- Education
- To consult correct authorities for advice to attain wider sight than the mere individual is capable of
- Reading: access true Good, encounter strange ideas
- Must use patience and hard work when reading: compares reading to mining with pickaxe: care, wit, and learning
- Must be accurate
- Must be willing to reread
- Cheapness of books makes people doubt their true worth
- People’s love of art often just a love of commerce, a type of shopping: paintings are for these people “bills pasted on your dead walls”
- TOURISM 277-9
- Commercialism turns tourism bad too: turns cathedrals (Switzerland, Italy, South Germany) into places to drive through and eat on
- Alps are “soaped poles in a bear-garden to climb up and down”
- “white leprosy of new hotels and perfumers’ shops” 278
- English countryside has been ruined with soot, ashes, foundries
- This stuff about leisure spaces moves swiftly and imperceptibly to larger social critique of grossly unjust inequality, showing that the Englishman’s travel and leisure habits have something to do with the diseased social state
- Compares the death of a boot repairman with tales of Princess Metternich’s dinner party for 200: a newspaper account of the interviews of the dead man’s family (comparing it to “deliberate assassination”), juxtaposed with the menu for her party and the list of entertainments given there
Created on November 9, 2008 08:48:04
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