Note 2 — II THE ROMANTIC SCHOOL IN GERMANY (continued 3)
Mary Morison translation
"The children of those Indian jugglers who swallow swords do not, my son, learn the art by gulping down confectionery; they are trained to swallow the sharp points of the bamboo, and by degrees arrive at swords. If it be your desire, as a man, to digest the sword of science, you must not, as a youth, feed on art confectionery."