精选英语美文赏析

精选英语美文赏析

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精选英语美文：无需苦苦寻找诚实的人

I BELIEVE in people. However much of a mess we seem to

make of the world, it is people who have brought about all the

progress we know, and I don't mean just material progress. All

have been for-mulated and expressed by men and women. Even

when people make mistakes it seems to me they usually make

them from right motives. Most of us want to do good.

I believe in people because I have seen a great many of them

in different parts of the world. I would rather trust my own

experience and observation than the cynical remarks of unhappy

men. My belief not only has given me a happy life but has made

possible any really useful work I have done.

Of course I like people, too. As a newspaperman for twenty

years in this country, Europe and Australia, I met all kinds of men

and women and saw them under both favorable and adverse

conditions. As a biographer, I learned that the people of other

days were not much different than we are today. The lesson of

history, both the history of the past and the history we are

making on this particular day of today, is that the people's

instincts are almost always right. You can trust them. Their

information may be wrong and their thinking muddled, but their

feelings are sound, and progress stems from this fact.

I lived in Spain at the time of the overthrow of the monarchy

in 1931, and first heard of the establishment of a new republic when our cook came from the market, breathless with the news.

Her very first comment, expressing what was uppermost in her

mind, was given with an almost exalted look: "Seiior, now our

children will learn to read and write."

It was a wonderful thing to see people animated by these

ideals, carrying out a bloodless revolution. I remember a dance

at which the lights were turned out during the playing of the new

republican anthem "because," as one republic leader told me 7

"this is a social affair and we don't want to see who won't stand

up!' That the counterrevolution was cruel and bitter does not

change the fact that the people themselves in those years of

progress were gentle and tolerant.

I know nothing that proves the spirit of divinity in human

beings more than the press's preoccupation with evil. As a

newspaperman myself, I always preferred digging into stories of

violence or crime or betrayal because they were so unusual. I

once wrote a history of political corruption in America, and after

years of research I had to base it on fewer than one per cent of

our public servants. Searching for crooks brought me into

contact historically speaking with many more honest men. I

hardly mentioned them in the book, but they are much more

important to me than the grafters. On the day that I find myself

being surprised by evidences of loyalty and Integrity and

tolerance in my fellow men, then I will have lost my faith.

精选英语美文：艺术家的责任

Very early in my life, an important event took place: in my

impressionable and youthful years, I discovered the personality

of St. Francis. Since that time, my main ambition has been

canalized into a strong desire to serve my neighbor by putting at

his disposal the fruits of my knowledge, the results of my studying, the development of my innate talent, and the

development of my skill as a performer; plus, my love!My dream

has always been to master myself for the sake of serving better

and being of more use to my fellow man. My concern and love

for him made me realize an additional responsibility, which my

fame as an artist brought to me, and that is my responsibility as

a human being towards those of my fellow men who might look

to me for guidance.

Soon after I had the privilege to come to this country, I

realized how important it was to become an example, and I will

mention two events which have reinforced this, my belief.

Some years ago, during the war, I heard that the Blood Bank

of the Red Cross, which served in Minneapolis and its vicinity,

needed badly assistance. Naturally, they were not able to pay for

all that they needed, so I decided to take my vacation by

accepting this responsible job of blood custodian. I was driving

in a truck to various towns within a hundred miles of Minneapolis

and taking charge of setting up the Mobile Unit in each town.

The Red Cross administration thought it advisable to

advertise the fact that I was working for them, in order to attract

public interest. It went to the point where some people probably

thought that I was going to entertain them with music during the

bleeding, which I certainly would not have refused to do, in spite