[MD] Intellectual and Social

[John Carl]

Marsha,

I have to go work, but I'll sit down tonite and let my fingers fly over the
passages promised.

In the meantime, to whet your appetite...

"in New England, if you are moody, you may wish to take a long walk out of
doors, but that is not possible at or even at most seasons.  Nature may not
be permitted to comfort you.  In California, unless you are afraid of the
rain, nature welcomes you at almost any time.  The union of the man and the
visible universe is free, is entirely unchecked by any hostility on the part
of nature, and is such as easily fills one's mind with wealth of warm
experience.


Now I must feel that such tendencies are of vast importance, not merely
today, but for all time.  They are tendencies whose moral significance in
the life of California is of course both good and evil, since man's
relations with nature are, in general, a neutral material upon which ethical
relations may be based.  If you are industrious, this intimacy with nature
mean constant cooperation, a cooperation never interrupted by frozen ground
and deep snow.  If you tend to idleness, nature's kindliness may make you
all more indolent, and indolence is a possible enough vice with the dwellers
of all mild climates.  If you are morally careless, nature encourages your
freedom."


Mea Culpa,

John

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:09 PM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:

>
> On Jan 5, 2010, at 12:12 PM, John Carl wrote:
>
> > I'm reading Royce's history of California right now and boy does he have
> > some interesting insight into the way an environment forms the individual
> > and society.  Reading his description of the attitude you get from living
> in
> > a place that isn't trying to kill you half the year is quite amazing.
>  His
> > description fits me to a "T", and his contrast with the New England
> > Individualist and the California individualist made for some fascinating
> > reading that I'm itching to share with Marsha.
> >
> > Lessee, it's gonna be 62 degrees today, I hope the rest of y'all are
> keeping
> > warm where you're at.
>
>
> Hi John,
>
> I'm interested.
>
>
> Marsha
>
> p.s.  The high temperature here today was 24-degrees.
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