Mr. Emerson
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I've brought someone to see you.
I'll be down in a minute.
Dear George reads German.
Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and so we go on.
Well, I suppose your generation knows its own business, honeychurch.
Good afternoon, Mr. Beeb.
I tell you that they shall be comrades, and George thinks the same.
The Garden of Eden, pursued Mr. Emerson, still descending, which you place in the past, is really yet to come.
We shall enter it when we no longer despise our bodies.
In this, not in other things, we men are ahead.
We despise the body less than women do.
But not until we are comrades shall we enter the garden.
I believed in a return to nature once, but how can we return to nature when we have never been with her?
Today I believe that we must discover nature.
After many conquests, we shall attain simplicity.
It is our heritage.
Let me introduce Mr. Honeychurch, whose sister you will remember at Florence.