(from Canto ii. Stanzas 25, 26)
To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell,
To slowly trace the forest's shady scene,
Where things that own not man's dominion dwell,
And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been;
To climb the trackless mountain all unseen,
With the wild flock that never needs a fold;
Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean;
This is not solitude, 'tis but to hold
Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled.
But midst the crowd, the hurry, the shock of men,
To hear, to see, to feel and to possess,
And roam alone, the world's tired denizen,
With none who bless us, none whom we can bless;
Minions of splendour shrinking from distress!
None that, with kindred consciousness endued,
If we were not, would seem to smile the less
Of all the flattered, followed, sought and sued;
This is to be alone; this, this is solitude!
Do Childe's thoughts on diffusionism actually have anything to do with the normative model of culture?
There are quite a few of them, some of them quite large, too, and before I commit to a series like that, I wanted to get a secondary opinion. Are they worth it? I generally like Dickson as an author, but he can sometimes be super abstract and hard to follow. Fundamentally, my question is: is the Childe Cycle worth reading? And if so, in what order? (I've heard differing accounts of this) Does the series suffer from being unfinished/finished by someone else?
Does anyone have access to War in Prehistoric Societies by Gordon Childe?
The Sociological Review Volume a33, Issue 3-4, pages 126–138, July 1941
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-954X.1941.tb02070.x/abstract
Thank you Egashira
It was just recommended to me on Goodreads and it seems familiar. If you have read it please let me know what you think.
Thanks!
