"It is beautiful, but it is unseemly, to employ yourself in what is sterile when you can do what is useful; to occupy yourself with what is easy when you have the courage to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity."

"Hawthorne and the Works of the Imagination", The America, May 1884

26 OF JANUARY

On

January 26, 1875,

Marti boarded the City of Merida steamer in New York that took him to Veracruz, Mexico.

The

following year, on this day,

José Martí read the poem titled To Enrique Guasp in Mexico at the function held for the benefit of his friend, actor and theater director.

In

1882

he published another of his Constant sections in La Opinión Nacional of Caracas in which he refers to the sending of letters in different European countries and details that in the various post offices of the world it was estimated that some thirteen million letters were deposited daily.

It also tells farmers how to know the humidity of the land;

and reports on the analyzes carried out by Dr. Hammond on the Guiteau case, assassin of the President of the United States, and on the trials of other criminals.

In

1883

, one of his chronicles sent from New York was published in La Nación of Buenos Aires, in which he dealt with the President's message and the political activity carried out by the different American parties.

It expresses: "Therefore, the politics of the United States is distributed between two worn-out parties, decomposed into factions sustained by personal jealousy and difference of ideas."

In

1894

he wrote a letter to Juan Arnao.

And in

1895 he

published in "Patria" a note with the title Some Cubans and others.

He emphasizes: "There are those who fold their arms in the face of dishonor and ruin, and even sit down with them at the table, for the pleasure of living, rather than go out into the harshness of the world to seek a remedy for ruin and dishonor." .

The homeland will always call some of them: accomplices.

He will always call the others: parents.

Likewise, in this work, José Martí highlighted how genuine Cubans preferred to face problems and commit everything to a true objective.

Also

on this day in 1895

he wrote a letter to Tomás Estrada Palma