human
Notes on England.
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I am acquainted with a London merchant who visits Paris twice yearly on business. When he is there he is very jovial, and amuses himself on Sunday as freely as anyone else. His Paris host, who visited him at his home in London, where he was made thoroughly welcome, going downstairs on Sunday to the room where there was a miniature billiard table, pushed the balls about on it. The merchant in alarm begged him to stop at once, saying, 'The neighbours will be scandalised should they hear this.'
human
I hardly know an _intellectual_ man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society. Most with whom you endeavour to talk soon come to a stand against some institution in which they appear to hold stock--that is some particular, not universal way of viewing things.
gpt
Do you persuade yourself that I respect you?
human
MEASURE FOR MEASURE.
gpt
and that monkeys must have been fashioned as travesties of men. But though we have moved upwards,
human
Man still exhibits race prejudice, patriotic bias, and the low instinct of class exclusiveness. Perhaps at no period of our social evolution have we been more cultured, and yet more vulgar, than at the present time. Such a juxtaposition may appear to indicate that a little knowledge for the masses is not without its disadvantages as well as its blessing. The proletarian of the sixteenth century could not read nor write; but he was probably less vulgar than those among his descendants whose acquaintance with modern literature is restricted to the gutter library of cuts and snips and racing tips. Simple, merry Dick trolled
gpt
Old Rose ; flash 'Arry and his blatant mates hiccough the staccato of
human
Glorious Beer.
gpt
for
human
and in society you must know, or affect to know, something about evolution, the higher criticism, Ibsen, Whistler's pictures, and Chippendale furniture. You may learn much about these, and be
gpt
at the same time; for smartness and culture go hand-in-hand to the
human
and
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and are as brother and sister one to the other. To use a phrase from the vocabulary of culture-cum-smartness, you are
human
Cheshire Cheese or the
gpt
Cock Tavern.