The Brougham to Pall Mall

Tales of Crimrose B. Cosmo : III

 

 

 

 

The word posture is probably derived from the root words poise and picture, the way the English language relies on root words and then improvises as it grows. But in applying that term to English culture, it comes to mean everything. In connection with the mind, it is the new magic.

 

In the field of transportation, the Brougham, a covered horse drawn carriage that seats at least two people, produced a picture of poise on the streets of london. It is also associated with royalty and encouraged the desires for long distance travel. That may have taken the Briton out of the country and introduced their posture and decorum in public manners to the rest of the world.

 

It raised the hopes of the new generations about the expectations of life. It brought to the ladies a preservation of their gentler natures in activities that may otherwise have been weary.

 

In the mind of the man, there's a tendency to say, ' if we can do that, can we do more?' But like what?

 

An observer of the phenomenon today may well say, ' what about planning what we want to do? Set an organization around it and put it into a dynamic and orderly momentum? ' Then what? Maybe run an administration all the way from Scotland to Gravesend .... unite the country, help people come together for a greater cause. And then who knows, maybe India.

 

One of the first Indians who travelled to London, Rabindranath Tagore, poet laureate and nobel prize winner for literature, was so filled with the well arranged magic of English public life, that when he returned to India, he may have single-handedly resuscitated the Indian renaissance experience and modernised Hinduism.

 

It is a new magic ..... it would take new eyes to see it. In The Gardener ( 1915 ), Tagore implored the reader to ' .... Open your doors and look abroad. From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories of the vanished flowers of an hundred years before....'  We may be doing that today, darling.

 

 

 

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