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in

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a

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class

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nobleman

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existed

shock

his greengrocer.

is

sex

social

fwrecked

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public

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are,

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at

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business

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to

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matter

as

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hero

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:

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prudence

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in

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convent

victor

ever

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question nowadays it

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longer,like

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force.

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serious

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instance,

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mind.

danger

of

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Francisco,

mandant's Comthat

is

and

good manners Besides, it is Don

plucking.

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from

Arthur

to

Bingham

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recognition of had

I have

new

former

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him.

on

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leading to

quality,has

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himself

save

Gilbert.

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cipherdom,

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thousand

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now

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and

tions, humilia-

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position.

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the

studies Westermarck,

Nietzsche,

and

of

future

the

of anachronisms Hamlet the

Don

than

actor's

his sword

and

mouth

of

freedom

for the

profligacyand

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way

instead

race

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instincts. gone

the

is concerned

and

his dare-devil

mandoline

and

of

into

his

own

have

airs

the

for

rag

shop

superstitions.In fact, he is now more Juan; for though the lines put into indicate the pit that Hamlet to to is a harmonious the most platitude part mere

philosopherare

for

which,

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be

to

properer inarticulate of cost

and

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do

in

five

performer

the

acts

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;

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women

driven. From Juan is now developed Don a Juan whom

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murderer.

just

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as

the

has

also

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in

talk

to

do

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any must

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at

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out

physical violences of the genuine Shakespearian tissue, you foe of the gods, whose instinctive

incidents

the story from Promethean true

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borrowed

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if Pecksniff,eyet separate the you himself unintelligible to except

from inspiration,

through

of

he

and

resembles this

that

point of

to

view

which Hamlet

Shakespear palmed

palmed poor palming off is

Macbeth no

longer

off off

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was/ as

a

as

a

necessary

/

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XIV

least

(at

on

misunderstood

longer

no

is almost

himself

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of that

the

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speak.

to

so

I

held

him

by

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yourself

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dialogue

propound

life, a life in which,

main

positionand you

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appears

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merely executing your popular play for the market.

story of modern the

of

am

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ancestor

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a

a

by thrusting into

by

control.

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thrusts

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public

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in

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play

Mozartian

statue,

substance, sexual ;

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mime panto-

second-hand

simply

occasion

our

length

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pleasantryis

essence

social

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to

hero, enchanted

my

dream

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hoardings

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to

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like

when

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punito

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out

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out

understandi mis-

figure superficially

a

you

manager

picture posters designed for few oil jars into the valley promise

Juan

that

disappointyou

to

sure

gratifyyou,

Sinbad

avoid

to

dissoluto

draw

strollingtheatrical of

heart

feel

to

"

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Mozart.

Mozartian

statue. statue

produced

the

not

of the

glimpse

antagonistthe

of

hero

desire

his

has

yet I have

another

more

a

environment

unlike

quite

as

Juanism is

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mere

in

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to bring him up to date attempt my modern Englishman into a modern

so

him

by launching

because

mine)

as

ascetic and

;

English

and

plane

your

the cases

doing nothing, whether

out

of

noble

Arthur

to

Bingham with

base, that conflicts

or

Walkley

ends

these

and

;

xv

that

assurance

rely on as their religion,their morality,thsjr principles,their patriotism, their reputation, their honor is what

and

you

forth.

so

for

society. Money and-

children; and

man's

prosaic which

he

failure,such

in all directions a

as

and do

or

as

ends

which

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teach

he

strays

artist is either

teach

of

Irishmen

disparagesthe him

to

fault that

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;

the

hell

a

be

ashamed

the with

somewhat

Irishman the

of all countries: nourishment remote

nineteenth

costs,

without

the

and

century determination

of every a

highly

and

men IrishI

as

amusing is what

prosaic Englishman

woman

scientific

stupidity.

and

children

second, and

organic whole nowhere, through the comparatively tribal

empires

well

as

harmless

an

in

which

knew

Englishmen poetic qualitiesof which be proud. For the Irishman to instinctivelyv/ makes the Englishman dangerqualitywhich ous and the flatters the Englishman instinctively

prosaicmen places

which

to

reproach to this foreign

the

makes

is wrong

with

value

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societyas an Irishman's the day I first set foot on of of the prosaicqualities

Englishmen

vanity

neglect his plain statement

my

of London

nation.

the

brag and

misunderstand

not

soil I knew

but

of the- artistic man's

secret

secondary ideals.

after

of the

secret

simplicitywith

with is, is the versatility

lie and

and

beg

your

as

is, is the

it the

:

The

of Nature

a

constitution

and

first and

the prosaic as scallawag : as poet, he cannot see, suicide : does, that chivalry is at bottom only romantic that it does to not see scallawag, he cannot pay spunge

poet

man

such

these

that

as

nourishment

put

personalambition.

success,

pursues

marriage means

is, broadly speaking, the law

of

dictate

the

not

should

men

first

children

women

and

nourishment

means

that

foundation satisfactory

and

whole, this is a sensible

the

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nations of to

and

every be married

social

b

stages

the health

man

of

at

is wrong The ity vital-

vof society

successfully gregariousness;

twentieth to

him.

first, heaven

muddle

may

to

be

century rich

all costs,

at

all

must,

organization, produce

a

xvi

Epistle Dedicatory infant development of poverty, celibacy,prostitution, mortality,adult degeneracy, and everything that wise

ruinous

dread.

most

men

short, there

with

brimming

however

crude

misunderstand

do-not

is

enough the

in

me

future

no

vitality,who

educated politically

intelligentnor So

In

for

neither

are

be

to

Socialists.

direction

other

men,

either

:

if I

appreciate the vital qualitiesof the Englishman as I appreciatethe vital qualitiesof the bee, I do not guarantee Englishman

the

ite)

smoked

and

in

fecundity,

bee

(or the Canaanunloaded of his honey by beings inferior combativeness, simple acquisitiveness, m imagination and superior to him

and

out

himself

to

like the

against being,

but

cunning. The

Don

Juan play, however,

attraction, and which

society in to

a

to

sex

the

to

deal

with

the

always

to

men,

of

nutrition

women's

convention

that

that

the in

even

by

a

men

is left

themselves

protect

from

it in

is left

sex

the

come

shallow

of

sexual

by

against

business, have initiative in

the

is

man,

the

true

but

;

last

theatre, that

of

by

interest

is the

down.

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like

the

suicide a

the

the

save

that

knows

Miranda

together and no

man

in

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need

he

same

pursued

and

they for

:

and

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very

trouble-" of"

like to

of.

mits com-

fiineral young

sctieming :

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throw

mate

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with

or

is the

disposed her

to

man

relation

she

straight from

only will

the

mad

goes

the

Rosalind,

case

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womaTT~the has

like

is the

man

goes doubt

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match.

may

is

but

;

the

and

and

hunt

woman

by blandishment,

Mariana

Prospero there

the

baffled, like Ophelia, she

;

fencing

creatures,

seeing

contriver, he is

she

of it

woman

and

pursuer When

do

may

stratagem,

between

and

with

of

business

romantic

so

deal

unreality,it imposes only on the inexperienced. always takes the initiative. Shakespear'splays the woman his popular plays alike the love his problem plays and

interest

to

is

pretence

sanctuary

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business

serious

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men.

feeble a up business must

set

serious

aggressive prosecution

too

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the

as

women,

women

the

to

nutrition, and

with

not

is

a

pair of

capture

doves

Florizel

; as

Arthur

to

Bingham

Walkley

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the

is

exception, Petruchio, characterized

undertakes

he real

life

to

find

we

who

Dobbins

the

of

Woman, over

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plays of And

and

;

huntsman.

which

him

to

to

were

would

him.

Nature's

on

carry

him

until

which

at

claim

the

friends

are

some

their

of

our

fastidiousness, with

purpose. fastidious as be

an

end

does as

of

not

occur

mortal

race.

urgent

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of

the of

last

the

need

of

work,

gathers

throw

away affectionate

natural

right

for

the them or

there

shocked

are

total

the

to

by sense

resistance

who

sex

stage

a

the

to

in

a

personal purposes. read this play in

have

morally

men,

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by

which

as

a

to

dares

him

did

man

conventional

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own

the

most

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she

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whom

to

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woman's

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(a

real control

with

defying

that

hands

instead

Juan,

into

tragic

true

my

quarry

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convention,

to

of

chase

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bird

birth

to

is the

exploitationsof

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plays

more

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unscrupulousness," meaning

masculine

in the

own

no

come

love

true

a

poses, and far transcends

that

manuscript

her

is

climax

a

money,

her.

seen

my

I have

has

Juan

dutiful

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in

behaves

tragi-comic

her

fully care-

has

count

not

find

you

prevail against

purpose

the

assure

disables

customary and

most

matrimonial

dramatically by

my

my Yet he

enable

energy

her

herself

finallyovertakes

not

apparent

is

has

he

do

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terror.

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realitythat fate

before

wife), Shakespear. Don Juan your

so

woman

he

:

cases

one

Katharine

that

effeminates

and

over

projectionof

her

or

which

I have

mature

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(an early

dropping like a fascinated MacStinger is by comparison a

Mrs

than

the

and only Petruchios, but Mantalinis with women appeals to their pity or in a romantically infatuated cling to them

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process

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object of pity

does

marry

her

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even

:

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is assured

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commercial

purely

a

pursue

way.

real

a

he

vanity,

jealousyor scheme

as

Once

adventurer.

not

xvii

disregard

woman

that

at

of

pursues if

women

physically,there anything meaner

j

xviii than

Epistle Dedicatory throw

to

work

necessary

disparageit as unworthy nation haughty American

and

its boots

the

the

of

throw

and

then

there

of

dwarf

part,

of

out

effort

hypocrisy in man's

he

over

peril, in

the

of

way

be

to

pushed

drunken

takes

his

even

less

he

exhausted

uxoriousness

and

;

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Dulcinea. of

out

field

the

the

part of

the

snares,

traps,

the

ancient home

most

hominist

do

women

the

women

tax

penaltiesto symbol in

the

everything

that

vote,

and

the

free

use

of

Arthur

were

before

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feminist of

of

by

men

there

other of

is

with

strewn

in five years the

life.**

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capture

their

is

posing

beats

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on

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sentimental

or

world

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be

crisis

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marriage, depriving women

franchise, of

if he

his swagger

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the

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on

or

commonplace

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crushing

attach

wildest

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no

grovelling

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has

condescension,

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King

its

breadwinner,

the

poetry

farce.

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a

city.

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Don

the

:

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admit

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pretence

women.

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must

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and

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out

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on

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matter.

which

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;

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clean

womanliness

any

him.

the

at

negro

creation

sexual

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of

this

effort

into

the

that

in

laugh

shoeblack

of

arrives, its supreme

ignominy by

at

female

no

then

physical inferiority

a

drudgery

when

him

the

is

birth

enough

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of

male

to

superhuman

be

that

and

he

acutely humiliating to

moment

is

whole

moments

are

made

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that

initiate any

limits

no

fact

imply

delicacywould are

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it makes

moral

and

people

indelicate.

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proves

by

negro

ourselves sex,

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other

upon

will

hand,

property,

limbs,

of

that

oneself immortality, the right to make of God house by taking off the hat, of Woman force he to can dispense with

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Arthur

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fly^Hke

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through

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young

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in

perish

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must

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hardships, stops

her.

discomforts

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our

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and

and

slavery

because

if the

:

xix

Walkley

dispense with

to

marry

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her

assume

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pain, danger

her,

Bingham

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him

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life ;

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on

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all the

and

women

studied into

nerves

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starve,

cross;

observe

we

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of

:

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gain experience of genius, Chopins, gobbles up men to

mere

hors

d'oeuvres.

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xx

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ruin

if

us

When

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born, this country

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xxvi

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genius, and to leave his works imagination; so that at the end to yourself ruefullythat but for assurance

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pregnant

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and

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life

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Bingham

Arthur

to

Walkley

philosophy

5

xxix

the religion: on sentimental Dickens's violently assumptions are contrary, contradicted by his observations; and Shakespear's ism pessimis only his wounded humanity. Both have the specific sympathies of genius of the fictionist and the common human feelingand thought in pre-eminent degree. They shrewder than the philosophers often and saner justas are

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so

professional they exploit popular purposes delicacy or scruple (for example, Sydney Carton the anarchical, and ghost in Hamlet !) : they are of Angelo and balance their exposures Dogberry, religion for

without and cannot

Sir

Dedlock

Leicester

portraitof

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in

:

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all their

or

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of

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strenuous

borrow

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their

melodramatic

stockpot of

shower,

a

is

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as

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conceivably

much

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the

from

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Hamlet

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could

motives

personages

plots;

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man

any

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they have

:

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for which inspiration spoilingof his hat in

thought

Barnacle, with

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worthy leader prophet who ideas : they regard those or

dangerous fanatics

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and

has

to

be

stimulated

by

the

of a policeman and Macbeth by the prejudices the cupiditiesof a bushranger. Dickens, without

of

excuse

Macbeths,

and stream

I

having

of

leave

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baffled

by

Twist,

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by was

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motives

own

simplest question

the the

manufacture

superfluouslypunts his monthly parts by mechanical

to

you

to

long lost parentage Dorrit

and

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Clennam

Rigaud

Shakespear

a

as

devices

of Smike,

or so

Blandois.

great

down

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memory Monks to

families

"

Hamlets

for

stage

the

which

being quite in the

Oliver relations

inopportunely The

of

truth fools

is,

'

on

Epistle Dedicatory

xxx

which

he in

sense

utterlybewildered. living at all ; and Dickens

despair of for

could

they

could

that

and

but

;

when

had

puppet

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/what

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will

in

except

make

a

this

of

it made

them

all

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the it

their

:

actions

temper. fashion

and

characters forced

are

is

is

force

but

all

he

This he

has

no

declare

that ^

Shakespear's have

the

lifelike;

are

from

is

Bardolaters

knew

manners

invent

to

:

they

:

them

on

laugh,

and

without,

is

vivid

more

characters, because is

world

grotesquely inappropriateexcept when of Henry V. quite conventional, as in the case

external

Falstaff

own

the

making

it work.

Foolish

play is the tragedy of irresolution ; projections of the deepest humanity defect

had

through

the

same

and

make

to

their

after

for

hands,

Hamlet

bursts

his of

virtue

unless

stimulus

with

matter

came

moment

their

on

artificial external

some

the

they found,

move,

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by taking the

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from

busying himself with its details. Neither of do anything with a serious positivecharacter : place a human figure before you with perfect

verisimilitude it live

in

himself

saved

of

sort

no

see

and

granted

them

dream

the

could

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was

than is

he

appetitesand delightfulas the

of

any

these

: self-acting

instincts

and

his

motives

who

his

are

Richard

humors. comedian

whimsical

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serious

III, too,

stops

a

funeral

in the but when, corpse's widow; smothers is replaced by a next act, he stage villain who babies revolted at the and ofFs with are people's heads, we Faulconbridge, imposture and repudiate the changeling. admirable tive Coriolanus, Leontes are descriptionsof instincis the indeed the : play of Coriolanus temperaments but descriptionis not ; greatest of Shakespear's comedies compromises the author philosophy ; and comedy neither He reveals be judged by those characters him. nor must to

into and are

make

love

which

to

he

agonizing

murders characters

and walk

what

puts and

Macbeths

the

Lears

in

a

revenges with

he and

void and their

knows

of

himself, his Hamlets

Prosperos. about the

feet

on

If these

factitious

like, whilst solid

characters

melodramatic the

ground,

comic

vivid

and

Bingham Walkley

Arthur

to

xxxi

shew that the author has much know to atriu'iing, you between and nothingto teach. The Falstaff comparison Micawber and between and Prosperois like the comparison At Copperfield.

David

the

of the book

end

know

you

Micawber, whereas you onlyknow what has happenedto David, and are not interested enough in him to wonder or might be if anythingso religion politics or idea, or a general stupendousas a religious political

his

what

idea of any sort, a

child; but he of his

out

to

were

occur

to

becomes

never

him.

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is tolerableas^

man,

and

might

a

but biographyaltogether

own

left

be

for his usefulness

Charles his friend " stage confidant,a Horatio or what theycall on the stage a feeder. Now sophers. say this of the works of the artist-philoyou cannot as

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cannot

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you have a sudden revelationof the abyss that lies between the fashionable author who could see nothing in the world

"

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disappointment and the field preacher the comedy of their incongruity, or achieved virtue and courage by identifying himself who but

with

and

the

of tragedy

the purpose of the world

as

he

their

understood it.

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Bunyan'scoward stirs your blood leaves you cold than Shakespear's hero, who actually hostile. You suddenlysee that Shakespear, secretly

contrast more

and

aims personal

is

enormous

:

understood virtue

with all his flashesand divinations, never conceived and courage, never how any

who was man not brink like look back from fool the a could, Bunyan'shero, of the river of death over the strife and labor of his pilgrimage, and say " yet do I not repent me"; bequeath"my sword panacheof a millionaire, shall succeed

me

skill to

that

him

in my

with the

or,

him

to

courage and my is the true joy in

and pilgrimage,

This get it." the being used for a purpose recognized life, by as

a

you

mighty one are

thrown

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; on

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that

worn being thoroughly

the scrap

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xxxii

Epistle Dedicatory

Nature and j r

instead

of

feverish

a

grievances complaining

itself

making

selfish little clod

that

the

world

ailments

of

will

devote

not

And also the only real tragedy happy. in life is the being used for by personally minded men which All the rest is at recognizeto be base. purposes you misfortune worst mere or mortality: this alone is misery, slavery,hell on earth ; and the revolt againstit is the only to

force

that

you

offers

work

man's

a

the

to

artist, whom

poor would

rich personally minded people employ as pandar, buffoon, beauty monger, our

and

the

It but

seem

may

difference

the

between

of

the

on

death

in the

courage of the

of

terms

as

a

Ibsen

in

by

read when on

is

the

more

for

Faith

is

versus

makes

sensible

Wiseman.

all

:

bottom

at

Parisian

century

in

these

matters

it is

sible sen-

the

life

Bunyan

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except

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a

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no

or

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dramatic to

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bottom

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results

than

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controversy the

are

his

present

conducted worst

the

as

Never-go-to-Church-on-Sunday, Mr Murderer, Mr Burglar,Mr Co-respondent, Mr

than

this, expressed by

mid-XIX

new

instance,

and

same,

Bunyan

mate esti-

"

lung." and

virtues, his

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:

Faith

of

Nietzsche has theology, is what post-Darwinian, post-Schopenhaurian in terms of polytheistic mythology ;

of

terms

Nothing novelties

virtue

tinker's

of expressed in terms philosophy ; Wagner and

purely righteousness is filthy the villageof Morality, supplanter of religion,

better

no

;

is

conventionallyrespectable and

Badman

Mr

the

Nietzsche

to

conclusions

the

as as

Wiseman

of

their

Church

career

Worldly

Bunyan

perception that Mr Legality in

Bunyan's

insistence

from

long step

a

for rags, his scorn his defiance of the

and

sentimentalizer

like.

formal.

his

willingly

so

Mr Mr Bad Mr

same.

pilgrims as Worldly Embezzler, Form,

Mr

Blackmailer,

read

can

said

Drunkard,

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Cad

Mr

Bingham

Arthur

to

whereas

and

them

and

himself

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his

Inconsiderate,

Wildhead,

;

word

a

respectablepeople

the

prison, such friend Civility;

young

forth,

so

finding

without

in

them

put

and

Agitator

Pilgrim's Progress

the

against them;

snub

Labor

Mr

xxxiii

Walkley

Mr

as

wko

W.

W.

Formalist

and

and

Pragmatick good family

university men clearlyyoung and high feeding); that brisk lad Ignorance, Talkative, mother-in-law his of Fairspeech and Lady By-Ends other Feigning, and reputable gentlemen and citizens, Little Faith, though he gets to catch it very severely. Even (who

of

were

heaven

at

last, is given

right to

be

mobbed

Guilt,

and

is

a

word

Exactly it

that

one

is

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that

Faint

remember

complained of

allegory

-

out withrespectability,

Nietzsche

would

exactly what

him

respectable

whole

against vice in

served

of

The

law.

the

it

Heart, Mistrust,

members

morality and

on can

also

be

and

and

crime.

Ibsen,

complained of

have not

confesses

which

which

in

is great

their

their

meaning;

the

prophet

with

being committed

greatness

Micah to

the

that

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in consideration

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rector

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can

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as

any

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to

I, as I force myself, pen opinions. Why, even find all the force of hand, into recognitionand civility, onslaught destroyed by a simple policy of non-resistance. Radical

In

is

enough and old enough to attained canonical rank, officially unofficially, were or admitted the canon that books to are by a compact literature

all the

it

of pillars

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?

not

recognized

all three

consistent

a

brothers

the

by

veritable

society and

understand

to

do

vain

I

redouble

the

violence

of

the

language

m

my

m

I rail at the theistic proclaim my heterodoxies. of Shelley, credulityof Voltaire, the amoristic superstition revival of tribal soothsaying and idolatrous the rites which the and mistook for an advance on Huxley called Science

which

I

Pentateuch,

no

less than

humbug professional svstem i

of

violence

at

which and

the

welter

saves

the

robbery

which

of

ecclesiastical and

face we

of

the

call Law

stupid and

xxxiv

Epistle Dedicatory-

industry.

Even

anarchists moral

atheists nihilism

with

And

tirades.

-inconceivable

that

be

It is narrated devout

very in the

;

his

in

ordinary citizen,knowing spoken of by a respectable

right, reads the

Hall

of

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as

me,

his

from

from

old

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for

Science

chapel, she

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lady, a

to

house

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in London,

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of

point

own

Micah,

reads

eighteenseventies an

moved

of

this brilliant

by

where,

sat

the

at

Charles

of

entranced Bradlaugh for many by years, ing eloquence, without questioning his orthodoxy or moultfeather

a

of

faith.

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in

just martyrdom

my

I

However, artistic

the

a

book

is

the fact that the writer

radiance

of

in the

than

chill of

fanciers

illusion

of

such

of

for

my are

already

their

logic

bent

to

can

an

world

stand,

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with

beliefs and

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;

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become

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the

rather

heroes

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have

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forms to

no

as

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municate com-

men

younger

though they

more

they lost

pastel has lost its finably indethe pastel,they grow shabbier until they cease to will either perish,or, if the

eighteenth century

drawing or its color, yet, like shabby, and will grow count

soul in the

simple

fellows. for

grievance

it propagates, old

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the

my

outmoded than

opinions

permanence opinions) by which

thought (callthem

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mere

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to

as

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thing in determiningthe

literaryvirtuosity,is

mind

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opinions.

her

sun

convention

belles lettres,and the

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not

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way.

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and

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right to

was

same

I shall

after all,the main

qualityof

Colchester

I fear

digressing, as

am

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does.

always but

all

neighborhood the

their

the

well

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mistaking feet

is

book

"another

edification that

endure

cannot

this exclaiming "Send stake," the respectablenewspapers

the

to

who

must newspaper undisturbed with

I

and infidelity

yet, instead of

Satanist

author

an

with

me

because

pith me by announcing And thoughtfulwriter."

and

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reproach

my

books

enough Bunyan's, by

to

want

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will

have

to

of qualities

to

Arthur

and temper bellettrist.

energy. doubt No

Mariner

hold

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they

I

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even

for art's sake

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the

alone

writing a single sentence. who, having nothing to say and in

so

love

with

oratory

they keep desperatelyrepeatingas of

that

know

of conviction

want

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a

of

understand

aforetime.

written

be

cannot

if entertainingly

story

nevertheless that

can

I

xxxv

spellbound in spite of

guest

men

are

literature

as

their

are

write,

to

with

tell my

toil

the

there

that

nothing

recognize,as

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must

Walkley

conviction

this

of the loud bassoon.

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wedding

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siren sounds

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did, that

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free

them

to

play

or

which

with

the

with a supply them pleasantparlor game which they call style. I can pity their dotage and even sympathize with their fancy. But a true sake : a man achieved for its own originalstyleis never may diluted

from

pay

hear, pay in

shillingto

a

read

or

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another

to guinea, according to his means, of genius; but he will man's act

soul

life and

his whole

with

to

become

a

see, not

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mere

will not accomplishment which ness for him, like fiddle playing. Effectivemake money of style. He of assertion is the Alpha and Omega has no have has nothing to assert none : styleand can

literature,exhibiting

even

who he

misapprehended message

and

who

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has

style as

its

of

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Giotto.

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nor

and

so

we

artistic clean

out

why

the

and

has

find

the

fossils, with of them, old

no

assertions

the

but

world the the

his

far

conviction

after it is made,

in

of power will carry

yet its

later ; or get disproved sooner full of a magnificentdebris of

matter-of-fact form

credibilitygone

still splendid. And

play the deuce Royal Academician

masters

as

go

style destroyed the styleof Job more Luther destroyed the styleof

Martin

than

will

assert

his assertion

Darwin

remains.

to

momentousness

Disprove

him.

an

with

our

mere

that \ar sus-

thinks he can ceptibles. Your get the his Giotto's correct beliefs, and style of Giotto without of letters thinks he perspectiveinto the bargain. Your man Bunyan's can Shakespear's style without get Bunyan's or

xxxvi

EpistleDedicatory

conviction

or

takes

not

care

Doctors

of

Shakespear's apprehension, especiallyif he with to splithis infinitives. And so your

Music, and

duly prepared the

manner

the

art

of

he

;

swears

for the

does

in

made

XIII

the

there

are

or

think

of

discords

anticipatedin learn they can All

treatise.

s

trade

me

it himself

that

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man

of fact he

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with

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though only yesterday,at century,

modern

any

as

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to copier of fossils offers them the as and, worst outpouring of the human spirit, all,kidnaps young people as pupils and persuades

that

his

limitations

his timidities he

when

rules^ his

are

taste, and

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me

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inconvenient are

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as

you

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if I

luminous

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the faults of my

dislike chances

myself at

that

unspeakably

let two to

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author, I liable

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intenselyrefractoryperson,

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to

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of literature,lightand qualities

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tensely in-

qualities ; so

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relieved

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obliged.

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myself.

of

life

yourself the

grace

well

when

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reforming, get

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how

little

his

out

that he has

no

seeing that

valet, and

notebook

and

he

typewriter,

a

I

has burgessdomesticity

has

no

mising Sur-

secretary

meditates

one

been

on

disturbed

by new fashions and methods, or by the enterpriseof the railway and hotel companies which sell you a Saturday to Monday of lifeat Folkestone as a real gentleman for two guineas, firstclass both

fares How

included.

ways

old

threshold

great

our

of

is Roebuck a

drama

The

?

of

ideas

everythingdepends on whether sixties or to the eighties. He

;

question is important on the for under such circumstances his adolescence

belonged to the born, as a matter was offact, in Trader Unitarian and Free a 1839, and was from his boyhood, the publication of the and Evolutionist from an Origin of vanced Species. Consequentlyhe has always classed himselfas an adthinker and fearlesslyoutspokenreformer. Sittingat his writing table, he has on his right the windows Place. giving on Portland Through these,as through a proscenium, the curious spectator his contemplate profileas well as may *

the

blinds

On his leftis the inner wall, with a permit. what statelybookcase,and the door, not quite in the middle, but somefurther from him. Against the wall oppositehim are two will

pillars: one, to his left, of John Bright ; the other, to them his right, of Mr Betzveen Herbert graved hang an enSpencer.

busts

on

portrait of Richard Martineau,

by

Mr

all the an

G.

F.

Cob den

Huxley, and George Watts {for Roebuck

earnestness

of a

man

who

;

Eliot

enlarged photographsof ; autotypes of allegories

believes in the

does

fine arts

them),

understand

not

impressionof D upon? s engraving of Delarocbe'

with

s

Beaux

and

Arts

On the wall hemicycle,representingthe great men of all ages. behind penetrabl him, above the mantelshelf,is a family portrait of imobscurity. A

chair stands

business visitors. the busts.

near

Two

the

writing

other chairs

table are

for the

convenience

against the

wall

of

between

Man

I

Act

and

Superman

3

Roebuck parlormaidenters with a visitor's card. caller. and nods, pleased. Evidently a welcome

take*

A

it,

Shew

ramsden.

maid.

Mr

Robinson

fellow.

He

that

The

story.

one

such

second

a

looking young

nice

male

attractive

not

figure

shapelyframe, the elegant and regularfeatures, the

slim, head

mourning, the small

of new

the visitor.

thinks, be the jeune premier; for it is

one

suppose

should appear in

with

returns

uncommonly

really an

is

must,

to

reason

and

out

Robinson.

Mr

the

suit

up.

parlormaidgoes

The

in

him

bloom pretty little moustache, the frank clear eyes, the wholesome the youthful complexion,the to elf brushed on glossyhair, not

and good dark color, the arch of good curly,but of fine texture in the eyebrows, the erect nature forehead and neatlypointed

chin, all

the

announce

that he will

And

do

not

who

man

so

without modest

engaging sincerityand him

as

old

man

will

eager amiable

love

suffer later

and

on.

sympathy is guaranteed by an which

serviceableness

stamp

he

The

nature. moment of appears, Ramsden' welcome, an s face expands into fatherly liking and expressionwhich dropsinto one of decorous grief as the young in his face as well as in his man approacheshim with sorrow black clothes. Ramsden ment. the nature to know seems of the bereaveAs the visitor advances to the writing table, the silently man

a

rises and

shakes

his hand

long,affectionateshake which to

common

the {concluding

well, Octavius, it's the

recent

a

a

sorrow

and We

lot.

common

cheering up~\Well, all face

must

it

self replaceshim-

Ramsden

chair.

own.

Yes

octavius.

owed

him

father

could

octavius.

handshake

takes the visitor's

Octavius

ramsden.

of

word:

Sit down.

day. in his

tells the story

a

both,

ramsden

some

it without

across

a

:

must

we

great deal. have He

done

had

But he

He if he

no

had

son

face

did had

it, Mr

Ramsden.

everything for

me

But

I

that my

lived.

of his

daughters;

own,

and

you

see.

yet he

was

as

good

Man

4 to

sister

my

to

as

intended

always

and

all his

thank

not

taken

boy

takes his father's

and

now

he

will

He

and

cbtef

cries

let

Now

I

time

him

saw

"Tavy

is

when

I

their

sons,

realize

only

met

one

used

to

say

tell you

or

not

about

and

from been

*

that he

me

the

was

: partiality

But I

you.

who

"

me

hes

son

to

say

to