"...teach him to know himself and to be modest, which is the first lesson of wisdom"

("Little Finger", The Golden Age, New York, 1889)

JANUARY 25

On

January 25, 1875,

José Martí left New York for Mexico, on the steamer "City of Mérida".

In

1882 he

published his Constant Section in La Opinión Nacional, in Caracas.

He writes about the French painter Meissonier and about Professor Draper's Treatise on Human Physiology.

He points out that each page of the text contains a new experiment, a valuable discovery, with such vigor and freedom of movement "that they give this Physiology treatise the interest of a novel."

It also refers to the knowledge that a farmer must have to make the land more productive, and analyzes a bill presented to the Spanish Congress to repair the disorders and losses caused by excessive mental activity, even in robust men.

He commented on the proposal of a deputy with a view to declaring the teaching of hygienic gymnastics official, and that it be taught in higher education centers and that attendance to these classes be compulsory.

He specifies: “It must be taken into account that the spirit is voracious, and it is necessary to give it a bite.

The spirit feeds on the one it animates."

In

1894

, Martí wrote to Serafín Sánchez and Horacio S. Rubens, as a result of the efficient performance of the latter in the tobacco conflict in Key West, when Spanish strikebreakers were brought in to displace the Cuban workers.

The following year,

on this date, Martí was announced the return of the cargo occupied in La Fernandina.