The human being coached and trained in the old education, then, was meant to have a whole range of just sentiments, like some kind of internal piano keyboard: a whole range of noble sentiments, ready to be played in response to the corresponding reality without, in lamentable contrast to the modern “trousered ape” and “urban blockhead” who have never been able “to conceive the Atlantic as anything more than so many million tons of cold salt water.”
