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latter-day pamphlets-第61部分
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tump…Oratory; screeching and gibbering; words without wisdom; without veracity; without conviction more than skin…deep。 A divine gift; that? It is a thing admired by the vulgar; and rewarded with seats in the Cabinet and other preciosities; but to the wise; it is a thing not admirable; not adorable; unmelodious rather; and ghastly and bodeful; as the speech of sheeted spectres in the streets at midnight!
Be not a Public Orator; thou brave young British man; thou that art now growing to be something: not a Stump…Orator; if thou canst help it。 Appeal not to the vulgar; with its long ears and its seats in the Cabinet; not by spoken words to the vulgar; _hate_ the profane vulgar; and bid it begone。 Appeal by silent work; by silent suffering if there be no work; to the gods; who have nobler than seats in the Cabinet for thee! Talent for Literature; thou hast such a talent? Believe it not; be slow to believe it! To speak; or to write; Nature did not peremptorily order thee; but to work she did。 And know this: there never was a talent even for real Literature; not to speak of talents lost and damned in doing sham Literature; but was primarily a talent for something infinitely better of the silent kind。 Of Literature; in all ways; be shy rather than otherwise; at present! There where thou art; work; work; whatsoever thy hand findeth to do; do it;with the hand of a man; not of a phantasm; be that thy unnoticed blessedness and exceeding great reward。 Thy words; let them be few; and well…ordered。 Love silence rather than speech in these tragic days; when; for very speaking; the voice of man has fallen inarticulate to man; and hearts; in this loud babbling; sit dark and dumb towards one another。 Witty;above all; oh be not witty: none of us is bound to be witty; under penalties; to be wise and true we all are; under the terriblest penalties!
Brave young friend; dear to me; and _known_ too in a sense; though never seen; nor to be seen by me;you are; what I am not; in the happy case to learn to _be_ something and to _do_ something; instead of eloquently talking about what has been and was done and may be! The old are what they are; and will not alter; our hope is in you。 England's hope; and the world's; is that there may once more be millions such; instead of units as now。 _Macte; i fausto pede_。 And may future generations; acquainted again with the silences; and once more cognizant of what is noble and faithful and divine; look back on us with pity and incredulous astonishment!
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