PRIESTLEY AND CULTURE.
»sir,-If I was a farmhand down the road from Priestley and he offered me culture on a silver platter and I felt a call to criticise the gift and, strong in the spirit of a great farmhand called Robert Burns, went right ahead and delivered judgment, and he called me a half-wit, a cultural ignoramus, nothing but a mentally lazy ditchdigger and rabbit shooter, on the lowest level of taste, trying to exile my children from whole worlds of wonder and delight, I would call him a blackmailing tyrant. How pamper’d Luxury, Flattery by her side, The paresite empoisoning her ear With all the servile wretches in the rear Looks o’er proud property, extended wide; And eyes the simple rustic hind, Whose toil upholds the glittering show, A creature of another kind, Some coarser substance unrefined, ; Placed for her lordly use -thus far, thus vile below,
FARMHAND
(Thames).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 414, 30 May 1947, Page 5
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151PRIESTLEY AND CULTURE. New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 414, 30 May 1947, Page 5
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