...or something.
Not Torah, just interesting.
“...I said of that great and pure society of
the dead, that it would allow 'no vain or vulgar person to enter there.' What
do you think I meant by a 'vulgar' person? What do you yourselves mean by
'vulgarity'? You will find it a fruitful subject of thought; but, briefly, the
essence of all vulgarity lies in want of sensation. Simple and innocent
vulgarity is merely an untrained and undeveloped bluntness of body and mind;
but in true inbred vulgarity, there is a deathful callousness, which, in
extremity, becomes capable of every sort of bestial habit and crime, without
fear, without pleasure, without horror, and without pity. It is in the blunt
hand and the dead heart, in the diseased habit, in the hardened conscience,
that men become vulgar; they are for ever vulgar, precisely in proportion as
they are incapable of sympathy, ---of quick understanding, ---of all that, in deep
insistence on the common, but most accurate term, may be called the “tact” or
“touch-faculty” of body and soul; that tact which the Mimosa has in trees,
which the pure woman has above all creatures; ---fineness and fulness of
sensation beyond reason...”
Sesame and Lilies, para. 28.
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