十一.談在羅浮宮所得的一個感想

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如果它是經過努力而能表現理想與人格的工作,雖然結果失敗了,我們也得承認它是有價值的。

     這個道理白朗寧(Browning)在〈Rabbi Ben Ezva〉那篇詩裡說得最精透,我不會翻譯,祇擇幾段出來讓你自己去玩味: Not on the Vulgar Mass Called work,must Sentence pass, hings done,that took the eye and had the price; Oer which,from level stand, he low world laid its hand, Found straight way to its mind,could value in a trice: But all, the worlds Coarse thumb And finger failed to thumb, So passed in making up the main account; All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, hat weighed not as his work,yet swelled the mans amount: houghts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through thoughts and escaped: All I could never be, All,men ignored in me, his I was worth to God,whose wheel the pitcher shaped. ◇ 這幾段詩在我生平所給的益處最大。

    我記得這幾句話,所以能驚贊熱烈的失敗,能欣賞一般人所嗤笑的呆氣和空想,能景仰不計成敗的堅苦卓絕的努力。

     假如我的十二封信對於現代青年能發生毫末的影響,我尤其虔心默祝這封信所宣傳的超「效率」的估定價值的標準,能印入個個讀者的心孔裡去;因為我所知道的學生們、學者們和革命家們都太貪容易、太浮淺粗疏、太不能深入、太不能耐苦、太類似美國旅行家看「蒙娜麗莎」了。

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