Original artwork, not a still
The timid man, the lazy man, the man who distrusts his country, the over-civilized man, who has lost the great fighting, masterful virtues, the ignorant man, and the man of dull mind, whose soul is incapable of feeling the mighty lift that thrills “stern men with empires in their brains”
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The unfinished passage lists kinds of men criticised for lacking the speaker’s ideal of fighting strength and national fervour. Its imperial and masculine valuation remains a judgment; the missing predicate is not supplied.
Context reviewed
