Wide Is the Gate (The Lanny Budd Novels) by Sinclair Upton

Author:Sinclair, Upton [Sinclair, Upton]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781504026482
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2016-01-18T16:00:00+00:00

VI

Strolling in one of the parks of Barcelona they came upon a sight which restored Raoul’s hopes for the proletariat of this city. Under a spreading live-oak was a small platform, and in front of it half a dozen benches; upon the platform stood a tall lean man of middle age, wearing dark glasses against the glare of the hot afternoon, and upon the benches sat a score or more of thin and ragged urchins. They were being taught their letters, in order that they might later on be able to read Socialist papers, leaflets, and manifestoes, and learn how their parents were exploited. At least that was the way it appeared to Raoul, and he wanted to stay and hear every word, and afterward talk with the teacher and learn if such open-air schools were a regular affair and for how long they had been established.

Lanny, in the meantime, went to look at the Barcelona Cathedral, dark, mysterious, magnificent, with its fifteenth-century stained-glass windows. Thereafter in each city he had only to say that he was going to inspect religious art, and Raoul would set forth to look for schools and collect data to send home and use in a series of articles for the Socialist press. A happy compromise, for Raoul could find not the slightest interest in endlessly multiplied Madonnas or endlessly crucified Christs, even when he had a tiptop connoisseur to point out the details of technique. Realistic art the younger man could appreciate, especially when it dealt with the humble and the poor; but Catholic art was one of the curses of Spain, only surpassed in its evil effects by Catholic education, Catholic politics, Catholic landlordism and banking.

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