In what is new
and growing there is apt to be something crude, insolent, even a
little vulgar, which is shocking to the man of sensitive taste;
quivering from the rough contact, he retires to the trim gardens of a
polished past, that they were reclaimed from the wilderness
by men as rough and earth-soiled as those from whom he shrinks in his
own day.
and growing there is apt to be something crude, insolent, even a
little vulgar, which is shocking to the man of sensitive taste;
quivering from the rough contact, he retires to the trim gardens of a
polished past, that they were reclaimed from the wilderness
by men as rough and earth-soiled as those from whom he shrinks in his
own day.
Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
