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The same thing can be said about the problems that give rise to theories about human agency; they are always changing, or at the very least, being added to. Modern theories of agency are tailored to modern questions. They should not be interpreted as bad answers to perennial questions. It might very well be that Aristotelian or Thomist approaches to human agency have never been completely superseded, that they have resources and advantages that contemporary views lack. But no argument to that end will ever be satisfying which insists on measuring modern theories with a pre-modern yardstick.
But as some may differ with me inopinion, I shall inform such, that it is notthe little farmer who can rear either to advantage.If he is a suckler, not one dropof milk can be spared to the sow which isto fatten her pigs, and if he has only onecow for the use of his family, the milk willbe more advantageously consumed amongthem than in his stye: farther, unless hehas constant threshing going on, that thepigs and poultry may always have to pickup the corn which is left in the straw thrownout at the barn door, he will find that theywill want the many handfuls of corn thrownto them, which are never taken account of,and not missed, because they are taken fromthe great heap, but which, if measured outto the good housewife, whose perquisitethey are, would startle her at the end ofthe year. So thoroughly is a neighbour ofmine satisfied of the truth of this, that heis determined never to rear another pig;convinced that he can buy store pigs to putPage 20up for fattening, cheaper than he can rearthem; being well assured that they do notcost him less than 8d. per pound before theyare put up: much less will he be able tosell a sucking pig at the price of butcher'smeat. Those who are acquainted with thefattening of suckling animals, know thetruth of what I say.
It is only the cottager and large farmerwho can rear them to advantage; the first,by letting a sow with her litter of pigs runin the lanes, or rather, under that pretence,in the fields and meadows of the neighbouringfarmers. Yet this cannot be deemeda national benefit. The only person whocan rear pigs to real advantage, is the farmerwho sows fields of clover purposely fortheir use, (but this must be at a distancefrom large towns, where hay does not fetchan extraordinary price) or the dairy-manwho makes butter and cheese. These arelikewise the only people who can supply uswith butter at a reasonable rate, and that bydint of capital and close attention to thatone article: nor are these men seated onwhat are called arable farms.
Here I will inform my opponents of apractice they are probably not acquaintedwith, which is, that in Denbighshire andPage 21Flintshire, it is no uncommon thing to seehundreds of pigs, for which they growclover on purpose, and which graze on thegrass lands adjoining the beach, and whenthe tide is out, they go down and feed onthe sea ooze, where they find shell-fish, &c.These pigs are as regularly folded at nightas sheep. They are bought up by the distillers,&c. By this means pigs, or whatis more proper for the farm, pork, is rearedto most advantage. The person from whomI had this information, and who has beenlong a dealer in hogs, assures me of this fact;and that it is not uncommon to see fivethousand in one market; and he confirmedto me what I have advanced, that it is thegreat farmer only who can rear them toadvantage, and that by this practice.
Before beginning a discussion of Moon, it might be helpful tobriefly summarize Translations' plot. Friel's play opens in BaileBeag, an isolated backwater community in County Donegal. It's clear thatlife here is not easy. The action takes place in a hedge-school run by Hughand his crippled son Manus in an old, unused barn. (2) The students, alladult, are a motley crew: Jimmy Jack Cassie, a bachelor in his sixties who,though fluent in Greek and Latin, is filthy and never washes or changes hisclothes; Sarah, who cannot speak and makes unintelligible sounds and grunts;Doalty, who struggles with his multiplication tables; and Maire, Manus'sweetheart, who is thinking of emigrating to America. They write on oldslates and sit on assorted stools and benches; broken and forgotten farmimplements litter the room. Their poverty is immediately obvious: Maire paysfor her schooling with a pail of milk, and we gather that the others oftendon't pay at all. The area offers few opportunities to make a decentliving. There's a little fishing and some agriculture, but the cashcrops go to the British, whose soldiers (the "sappers") areeverywhere; there's no industry or trade to sustain life here. Notsurprisingly, the villagers exchange talk about many who have already leftfor England or Australia or America, and others, like Maire, who areconsidering leaving, largely because without a job, she and Manus can'tafford to get married. Totally dependent upon the potato crop for theirsustenance, everyone is paranoid about a potato famine, characterized by thesweet smell which precedes rotting potatoes. The audience, of course, knowsthat a famine will indeed sweep the land within a few years, turning wholevillages into ghost towns. (3)
At the same time, desperate though their situation might be, weare also aware of what a vibrant community this is, rich in imagination andlearning. Jimmie Jack, for instance, entertains himself by reading Homer inGreek; Hugh, the schoolmaster, grills his students in Latin conjugations andetymologies, all done with relish and humor. The hedge-school fosters aharmonious blend of Gaelic and classical cultures. "Our own culture andthe classical tongues," Hugh says, "ma[k]e a happ[y]conjugation" (25). As Richard Kearney puts it, this is a village where"the poetic imagination still reigns supreme, roaming from Baile Beag toAthens and Rome in the breath span of a single verse" (91).
The point is driven home, in fact, that these backwater Irishpeasants enjoy a level of linguistic and literary richness that surpassesthat of their colonial masters. Hugh tells his students and fellow villagersabout his first encounter with Captain Lancey, the director of the ordnancesurvey: "He ... explained that he does not speak Irish. Latin? I asked.None. Greek? Not a syllable. He speaks--on his own admission--only English;and to his credit he seemed suitably verecund--James?" to which JimmyJack responds, "verecundus--humble." Hugh adds that he told Lanceythat while some of the Irish speak English, they do so usually "for thepurposes of commerce, a use to which his tongue seemed particularlysuited" (25). Friel's irony is skillfully deployed: even theunwashed Jimmy Jack lives a richer life of the mind than Lancey. (4)
Tyrone and Hogan's rhetorical sparring reminds us of the wordgames in Translations, when Hugh questions his students, or his sometimeswitty, sometimes eloquent exchanges with the British interlopers. Languagematters to Hugh; it's something he spends time thinking about. In anexchange with Lieutenant Yolland, for example, when Yolland remarks thatGaelic language and literature are "enormously rich and ornate,"Hugh responds, "Indeed, Lieutenant. A rich language. A rich literature.You'll find, sir, that certain cultures expend on their vocabularies andsyntax acquisitive energies and ostentations entirely lacking in theirmaterial lives" (42). Well said. The Irish as a people are in love withlanguage, its imagery, its rhythms, its endless variety--a fact madeabundantly clear in both of these plays.
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