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英国的政治传统
The
Englishman has been called
a political
animal,
and he
values what is
political
and practical
so muchthat
ideas
easily
bee objects of dislike in his eyes, and thinkers, miscreants,
because practice is everything, a free play of the mind is
nothing.(46) The notion of the free play of the mind upon all
subjects
being a pleasure
in
itself,
being an object
of
desire,
being
an essential
provider
of
elements without
which a nation ’
s spirit,
whatever pensations
it
may have for them,
must in
the
long
run, die
of emptiness,
hardly
enters
into
an Englishman ’
s thoughts.
It
is
noticeable
that
the
word curiosity,
which in
other
languages is
used in a good sense,
to mean, as a high
and
fine
quality
of man’s nature,
just
this
disinterested
love
of
a free play of the mind on all subjects, for its own sake
–
it is noticeable, I say, that this word has in our language no
sense of the kind, no sense but a rather bad and disparaging
one. But criticism,
real
criticism,
is
essentially
the
exercise
of this
very
quality. (47)It
obeys an instinct
prompt