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I am sure not to get out of humour with him. But I have no objection to try the whole three: only I vote for much continuity of silence, as we have had floods of discussion to-day. Dunsford. Agreed! Ellesmere. Come, Rollo, you may bark now, as you have been silent, like a wise dog, all the morning.
It is a dangerous thing, the better classes leaving any great source of amusement and instruction wholly, or greatly, to the less refined classes. Dunsford. Yes, I must confess it is. Great part of your arguments apply to musical as well as to theatrical entertainments. Do you find similar results with respect to them? Milverton.
You do not know what injury you may do a man when you destroy all reverence in him. It will be found out some day that men derive more pleasure and profit from having superiors than from having inferiors. Dunsford.
And so, though we should not exactly declare that writers who have had much moral influence have been wicked men, yet we may admit that they have been amongst the most struggling, which implies anything but serene self-possession and perfect spotlessness. If you take the great ones, Luther, Shakespeare, Goethe, you see this at once. Dunsford. David, St. Paul. Milverton.
He was very anxious to pretend he did not mind, and on their way back along The Embankment insisted on talking of indifferent things. Dunsford good-naturedly wanted to discuss the causes of Philip's failure, but Philip was obstinately casual.
The apple-tree may produce a somewhat different apple; but it will never producn an orange, neither will it yield a crab. So here we are again among our old friends. We should have good reason to complain had Dunsford, Ellesmere, or Milverton been absent; and here they are again just as before.
To read it is like looking at the stars; we turn away in awe and perplexity. Yet there is some method running through the little affairs of man as through the multitude of suns, seemingly to us as confused as routed armies in full flight. Dunsford. Some law of love. Ellesmere.
By the way, I think your taking dress as an illustration of extreme conformity is not bad. Really it is wonderful the degree of square and dull hideousness to which, in the process of time and tailoring, and by severe conformity, the human creature's outward appearance has arrived. Look at a crowd of men from a height, what an ugly set of ants they appear! Dunsford.
Yes, there is something in real life, even though it is in the unheroic part of it, that interests one. I mean to get through the book. Dunsford. What are we to have to-day for our essay? Milverton. Let us adjourn to the garden, and I will read you an essay on Greatness, if I can find it. We went to our favourite place, and Milverton read us the following essay.
There does not seem much in the description of such a character; but only see it in contrast with that of a brilliant man, for instance, who does not ever fully care about the matter in hand. Dunsford. I can thoroughly imagine the difference. Milverton.
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