ABSTRACT
Rosenbaum observes, though, that 'Dignity' represents a continuation of 'some of the themes of "Christ or Caliban?" and argues for a romantic discarding of timid dignity for the freedom of knowing people intimately'. Dignity demands, in one's intercourse with others, a great restraint, a great reserve, and a fundamental sense of one's own absolute rightness. To be dignified is to be uncompromising, but at the same time enormously tolerant, because it is undignified to be annoyed or even disturbed. The Romantics, however, not only want to speak to people, but they think their relations with people are quite different from anything else. This sort of Vegetarianism is in many cases the unfortunate accompaniment of middle age; but it is by no means limited to that period of life; and don't think it would be an exaggeration to say that the ordinary undergraduate was a confirmed vegetarian.
