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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...as being, at the worst, a kind of dazzling den of vice, and, at the best, a resort where semiidiotic families possessing great wealth may, with impunity, concoct grotesque and vulgar--and ever more vulgar--diversions for all the rest of our completely moral, intellectual, high-minded and desirable population to sneer at. Around the mythical Newport of editors and reporters has grown a tradition and a stock of phrases that the country at large eagerly swallows whole. I don't suppose there is a paragrapher in any state of the Union who could possibly grind out four lines about Newport without employing the words "monkey dinner," although there has never been such a thing as a monkey dinner at Newport (whatever a monkey dinner may be), and nobody who lives and entertains here in summer has the slightest idea of what the thing means. Originally, no doubt, the fiction of a reportorial mind, it has become, through repetition and the course of time, as much of an established fact to the nation as the Washington monument or the Civil War. The country in general believes, I am sure, that a dinner party here is merely a euphonious term for a debauch--but, of course, you know as well as I do that a Newport dinner resembles precisely a similar festivity everywhere else in the world where there is great wealth and the strange state of mind known as "fashion."-Here there is sometimes--often, perhaps,--rather too much pomp and circumstance, more servants and American beauties and jewels than the particular occasion justifies. In Europe I have dined at great embassies in the company of famous and important personages, with far less fuss, feathers and war paint than I have been accustomed to during the past month, when I would dine, for...

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Excerpt from PrejudicesIt used to be conventional and proper to bring up children in the belief that the great difference between humans and the so-called lower animals was that the humans had souls and that the other animals had not, but now adays many parents do not seem to care to as sume the responsibility for this distinction, and it is not because they believe we haven't souls (what a convenient word it but because they are inclined to suspect that'the kindly beasts 'who love the children and, are beloved by them, who enjoy such intimate companion ship with them, have. However Ahis may be, it certainly is a pleasanter, a more ennobling theory; one that tends to reduce human vani to extend sympathy, to increase the world's happiness, and to promote a more specific and comprehensive interest in the mysterious and beautiful ways of God.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from PrejudicesIt used to be conventional and proper to bring up children in the belief that the great difference between humans and the so-called lower animals was that the humans had souls and that the other animals had not, but now adays many parents do not seem to care to as sume the responsibility for this distinction, and it is not because they believe we haven't souls (what a convenient word it but because they are inclined to suspect that'the kindly beasts 'who love the children and, are beloved by them, who enjoy such intimate companion ship with them, have. However Ahis may be, it certainly is a pleasanter, a more ennobling theory; one that tends to reduce human vani to extend sympathy, to increase the world's happiness, and to promote a more specific and comprehensive interest in the mysterious and beautiful ways of God.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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