Cantelupe Monologue from Waste: A Tragedy, In Four Acts

From Waste: A Tragedy, In Four Acts by Harley Granville-Barker

male · philosophical · 51 sec

(Suddenly congenial.) Shelton's translation of Don Quixote I hope... the modern ones have no flavour. And you took all the adventures as seriously as the Don did? (TREBELL: I forget.) It's the finer attitude... the child's attitude. And it would enable you immediately to comprehend mine towards an education consisting merely of practical knowledge. The life of Faith is still the happy one. What is more crushingly finite than knowledge? Moral discipline is a nation's only safety. How much of your science tends in support of the great spiritual doctrine of sacrifice! TREBELL returns to his subject as forceful as ever.

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