roar of the machines..."
So I said, contemplating this blind selfishness: You look at woman from the angle of your imagination, and want her an instrument harnessed to your art, and you suppose all people to be artists and all women to be warbling birds and princesses swaying about in palaces. What say you of the woman who works to earn her living, or the living of her family — and they are many among women? Do you cast her out of your book of verse because she has not managed to inspire another da Vinci, and has not had the fortune to be, herself, a second Mona Lisa whose beauty inspires the artists scattered in every corner of Lebanon?
I do not blame the artist for his backwardness — I have shown its causes. But I blame him when he takes up matters outside his competence and sets himself up as a preacher and missionary, or a social leader, spreading narrow, limited views among people, and plunging into subjects he should have left to the thinkers and the scholars of society. And I blame also those who blunder in their thinking, failing to distinguish between a poet and a scholar, and supposing that anyone who has composed verse or delivered a speech can be among the leaders of thought in his society.
Yet in this study I have treated only the ordinary run of poets and artists, in whom imitation and the conserving of the old prevail. And I must except from their class the geniuses of art — those who penetrate with their insight into the future and pierce its veils; for they are, to my understanding, of the class of the prophets, who were able to stretch forward and carry in their hands the torches of liberation and renewal, and to utter lofty wisdom by the power of their inspiration, without the aid of the scientist's analysis or the philosopher's thought. And I see their
like in the company of humanist writers and poets who outstripped their ages in intellectual level, and who looked at woman neither with the look of master upon subject, nor with the look of a humble
worshipper upon a goddess in the clouds, but with a human, unselfish look whose substance is justice, equality, and fairness.
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