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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...e too tolerant of dull, well- meaning and industrious men and arrogant old women. It suffers hypocrites gladly, because its criticism is poor, and it ... ...e care that was to be taken of them, and they went down, and most of their women 38 An Englishman Looks at the World and children went down with the ... ... of industry. And then, last but not least, there is self-respect. Men and women are capable of wonders of self-discipline and effort if they feel tha... ...polygamy, monogamy still prevails as the ordinary way of living. Unmarried women are not esteemed, and children are desired. According to the dangers ... ...e hunter, there have been a number of forces and influences within men and women and without, that have produced abnor- mal and surplus ways of living... ...a classification of minds— the sort of classification dear to the Y.M.C.A. essayists, made for the purposes of the essay and unknown to psychology. Th...

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Lay Morals

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...is mostly a view of the civilised society in which he lives. Other men and women are so much more grossly and so much more intimately pal- pable to hi... ...uired and means were provided. He was not a pure man in his relations with women, and the leprosy of 45 Lay Morals which he died should be attributed... ...ut dirty Damien washed it. Damien was not a pure man in his relations with women, etc. How do you know that? Is this the nature of the conversa- tion ... ...give you stale sneers at all the celebrated speakers. He was the terror of essayists at the Speculative or the Forensic. In social qualities he seems ... ...d peer through the gratings into the shadow of vaults. Just then I saw two women coming down a path, one of 136 Robert Louis Stevenson them old, and ... ... the covering were the tears of those who laid it where it was. As the two women came up to it, one of them kneeled down on the wet grass and looked l...

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