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The Hôtel de Rambouillet was no mere literary réunion; it included hommes d’affaires and soldiers as well as authors, and in such a circle women would not become bas bleus or dreamy moralizers, ignorant of the world and of human nature, but intelligent observers of character and events.
It was here that she celebrated her honeymoon an event which must have taken place in the 'sixties or thereabouts. She is dead now. So is her husband, the prince of moralizers, the man who first taught me how contemptible the human race may become.
There is no morality, you say, so let it be even though statistics can refute you in that here are not committed crimes like those among other peoples, blinded by the fumes of their moralizers. But, without attempting now to analyze what it is that forms the character and how far the education received determines morality, I will agree with you that we are defective. Who is to blame for that?
Cigarettes never killed any one yet, old women and moralizers to the contrary, notwithstanding. Well, chum, how are you fixed? Did you make a raise so that you can bet a little cold cash on the great contest to-day? You said you thought you'd have some money this " "'Sh!" hissed Roy, glancing around apprehensively toward the house. "Don't talk about that here." "Eh? Why not?"
Any one who has eyes can see that they point their fingers and shrug. Another victim gone that is all. And now our daily moralizers declare that bad company alone brought our unhappy subject down. Yes, bad company!
Unfortunately, however, cultural questions have little interest for practical men, who regard money and power as the proper ends for nations as for individuals. The helplessness of the artist in a hard-headed business community has long been a commonplace of novelists and moralizers, and has made collectors feel virtuous when they bought up the pictures of painters who had died in penury.
I grant you that in this scheme of life there does enter ever so little hypocrisy; that this claret is loaded, as it were; but your desire to PORTIFY yourself is amiable, is pardonable, is perhaps honorable: and were there no other hypocrisies than yours in the world we should be a set of worthy fellows; and sermonizers, moralizers, satirizers, would have to hold their tongues, and go to some other trade to get a living.
One can put up with it from him, because he's willing to live up to his ideas, which is not a universal rule, so far as my experience of moralizers goes. Anyhow, I'll confess that I'm glad to arrive in time for a meal. The cooking at our place might be improved; George, I regret to say, never seems to notice what he eats." "That's a pretty good sign," said Grant.
The philosopher in ethics may say what he pleases of the refinements of sympathy; we would not give a single such heart as those gathered on Cottage Island for a whole army of puling, sentimental, hair-splitting moralizers.
The Sixth contains a choice obituary, or characteristic account of several of the persons who lie buried before this groupe of moralizers; an unsuccessful lover, who finds consolation in natural history a miner, who worked on for twenty years, in despite of universal ridicule, and at last found the vein he had expected two political enemies reconciled in old age to each other an old female miser a seduced damsel and two widowers, one who devoted himself to the education of his daughters, and one who married a prudent middle-aged woman to take care of them.
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