HDT: In my time it was Mexico. It was shaped like a cornucopia, and we wanted all of its treasures to pour into us! They had booted out the Spaniards just as we had the British, but they could not get our boots off their faces! We got golden California, Texas and the rest. We sent our Cherokees to Oklahoma. And then we went to war with ourselves over the dispensation of all that new territory--whether it be "slave or free." In other words, whether it go to the agrarian aristocracy of the South or the business/finance/industrial aristocracy of the North!
GC: Hardly anybody knows. People don't read history any more. They don't talk about it. The past is legend. We say, "Move on!" We want to know what's on TV, or what's online. We should say, "Integrate!"--make it whole. That's what the word means, really. One thing, an integer--past, present, future.
HDT: "Read not The Times! Read the Eternities!"
GC: And prepare ourselves for such reading! That's a key point. Constant preparation, polishing the mirror, cutting the diamond. In "Civil Disobedience" you wrote: "Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn."
HDT: Most are "shirking the real business of life."
GC: How to prepare? We're drowning in "infotainment." Inferior teachers tell us what to think, the great ones teach us how.
HDT: "We do not teach one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity" or of steadiness and solidity. The fault is commonly mutual" for we do not demand more of each other."
GC: Nor do we demand more from ourselves.
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