spirit made flesh??
1) She spends her mornings making her toilette, and her afternoons reforming the proletariat; she reads on hygiene and maternity, and tells poor mothers how to bring up babies, when the harassed women merely wish to learn how to stop their coming.

I would like to what does " proletariat" mean? the lowest social class?

2) Three thousand years ago a man thought that man might fly; and so he built himself wings; and Icarus – his son – trusting them and trying to fly, fell into the sea. Undaunted, life carried on the dream. Thirty generations passed, and Leonardo da Vinci, spirit made flesh, scratched across his drawings.

I would like to what does "spirit made flesh" mean?

Thanks.

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spirit made flesh??
1) She spends her mornings making her toilette, and her afternoons reforming the proletariat; she reads on hygiene and maternity, and tells poor mothers how to bring up babies, when the harassed women merely wish to learn how to stop their coming.

I would like to what does " proletariat" mean? the lowest social class?

2) Three thousand years ago a man thought that man might fly; and so he built himself wings; and Icarus – his son – trusting them and trying to fly, fell into the sea. Undaunted, life carried on the dream. Thirty generations passed, and Leonardo da Vinci, spirit made flesh, scratched across his drawings.

I would like to what does "spirit made flesh" mean?

Thanks.

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Question one , you are correct

Question 2, I think means Da Vinci tried to make a myth into a reality by his drawings of helicopters etc.

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Proletariat = the working classes.  People who only have their labor to sell in a market place.  It's everyone from factory workers, plumbers, construction workers to office workers, doctors, and lawyers.   The flip-side are the capitalists who own, through government enforced property rights, the "means of production":  factories, factory equipment, etc.   Basic Marxist theory.  I can't believe they don't teach that in Chinese schools.  Maybe there are different names for it there.

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I think "spirit made flesh" describes Da Vinci: a divine genius in a human body.  The phrase "made flesh" comes from the Bible, and refers specifically to Jesus (ie. divinity in the form of a man).

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