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The poor do not share their tastes nor understand their art-criticisms. They do not want the simple life, nor the esthetic life; on the contrary, they want very much to wallow in all the costly vulgarities from which the elect souls among the rich turn away with loathing. It is by surfeit and not by abstinence that they will be cured of their hankering after unwholesome sweets.
Spencer deduces his conclusions is manifestly partial. For instance, in his art-criticisms. Spencer in his youth did much drawing, both mechanical and artistic. He had a musical ear, and practiced singing. He paid attention to style, and was not wholly insensible to poetry.
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