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SUNLIGHT 147
to spend in it. He has a stovepipe hat and two pairs
of Sunday shoes, but he falls into mental stupor as
soon as he leaves his machine. His routine labor has
consumed his intelligence. He has become a part of
his machine. When his machine knocks off, his own
intellectual clockwork also ceases to operate. The
Andalusian may have poor clothes and Spartan re-
pasts; he has little or nothing inside his four walls; but
all the world around him is his. He has his intelli-
gence, his unspoiled senses to seize and enjoy his sur-
roundings. Who is better off? Who is happier?
The answer does not matter, since facts cannot be
changed. Machine civilization with its uniform tread,
its goose-step, its modern form of slavery, advances on
and on. Out of each million of everyday men, each
with a soul of his own, it will create one great man,
turning the rest of them into more or less well-fed
beasts of labor. Italy has already been conquered as
far south as Naples. Its inhabitants have already had
their ambitions awakened, though at present there ap-
pears to be no prospect of satisfying these ambitions.
You are fed here with the ungratifying spectacle of
half a million persons dashing about madly in an un-
sated utilitarian bustle and a fever of acquisition, half
determined to provide themselves with a neat little
yoke in which they may harness themselves while they
pray for the greater yoke to come. Northern Spain,
particularly Catalonia, including Barcelona, has been
entirely Europeanized. Here there are great indus-
trial centers and trade is carried on along modern lines.
But there is already a predilection for cheap goods,
and farther to the south the only industry is a sort of
bogus industry favored by the climate.
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