[MD] Intellectual and Social

[MarshaV]

John,

The promise of betterment existing someplace is very foolish.  


Marsha 





On Jan 6, 2010, at 1:11 PM, John Carl wrote:

> 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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