Who seeks the pleasures of car or plane
Must study hard these honours to obtain.
"We admire wisdom as a spectacle," concluded Robert Lynd. We may gawk at a house in Baridhara; women caparisoned in jewelry and silk; the sinuous contours of a seductive car; the decor of a plutocrat's drawing-room; in short, genuflect in our general plutolatry. But we resolutely retreat from the admiration of wisdom as from a heathenish practice. And woe to the votary of knowledge who bends his pride before the Encyclopaedia, disdaining the golden calf! Yet the true philosopher never recants his heresy, stoically to endure society's neglect and obloquy, its strappado and thumbscrews.
Must study hard these honours to obtain.
"We admire wisdom as a spectacle," concluded Robert Lynd. We may gawk at a house in Baridhara; women caparisoned in jewelry and silk; the sinuous contours of a seductive car; the decor of a plutocrat's drawing-room; in short, genuflect in our general plutolatry. But we resolutely retreat from the admiration of wisdom as from a heathenish practice. And woe to the votary of knowledge who bends his pride before the Encyclopaedia, disdaining the golden calf! Yet the true philosopher never recants his heresy, stoically to endure society's neglect and obloquy, its strappado and thumbscrews.
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