Excerpt from The Foundations of Imperialist Policy: A Course of Lectures Read to the Academy of the General Staff in 1918-1919
This legend by no means symbolises the striving of humanity to good, to beauty, to the unattainable, to the sun. Its essence is simply the following. Many of the ancient nations had a particular method of obtaining gold which has been preserved to the present day by some of the African tribes. The following was the method of obtaining gold on the banks of the gold-bearing rivers. The gold sand was washed by passing it through sheep's wool, the gold particles remained on the wool, and the latter was thus transformed into a seemingly whole compact golden fleece.
The legend of the Argonaut? represents in poetical form the brutal materialist fact of the hunt of man for the yellow metal in his most ancient stages of development. Around this simple fact - the fact of the hunt of man for gold - the poets have produced a splendid legend and a series of remarkable poetical works.
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