The Girl of the Period, And Other Social Essays 1
The Girl of the Period, And Other Social Essays 1
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We, who read only fi*om a distance, think that Aglae's father made a mistake, and that the honester man would have been the better choice of the two.
It is only when we bring the same circumstances home to ourselves that we realize the immense im- portance of the social element ; and how, in this complex life of ours, we are unable to move in a single line independent of all it touches. Imagine a ll£SALLIAKCEa. 151 fine old county lamQy with a son-in-law who ate peas with his knife, said *you w...as* and 'they ia,' and came down to dinner in a shooting-jacket and a blue bird's-eye tied in a wisp aboat his throat! He might be the possessor of all imaginable virtues, and, if occasion required, a very hero and a preux cheva- lier ^ however rough ; but occasions in wUch a man can be a hero or a preux chevalier are rare, whereas dinner comes every day, and the senses are never shut. The core within a conventionally ungainly envelope may be as sound as is possible .to a corrupt humanity, but social life requires manners as well as principles ; and though eating peas with a knife is not so bad as teUing ftdsehoods, still we should all agree in saying, Give us truth that does not eat peaa with its knife ; let us have honesty in a dress coat and pureheartedness in a clean shirt, seeing that there is no absolute necessity why these several things should be disuiuted.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
We, who read only fi*om a distance, think that Aglae's father made a mistake, and that the honester man would have been the better choice of the two.
It is only when we bring the same circumstances home to ourselves that we realize the immense im- portance of the social element ; and how, in this complex life of ours, we are unable to move in a single line independent of all it touches. Imagine a ll£SALLIAKCEa. 151 fine old county lamQy with a son-in-law who ate peas with his knife, said *you w...as* and 'they ia,' and came down to dinner in a shooting-jacket and a blue bird's-eye tied in a wisp aboat his throat! He might be the possessor of all imaginable virtues, and, if occasion required, a very hero and a preux cheva- lier ^ however rough ; but occasions in wUch a man can be a hero or a preux chevalier are rare, whereas dinner comes every day, and the senses are never shut. The core within a conventionally ungainly envelope may be as sound as is possible .to a corrupt humanity, but social life requires manners as well as principles ; and though eating peas with a knife is not so bad as teUing ftdsehoods, still we should all agree in saying, Give us truth that does not eat peaa with its knife ; let us have honesty in a dress coat and pureheartedness in a clean shirt, seeing that there is no absolute necessity why these several things should be disuiuted.
What to read after The Girl of the Period, And Other Social Essays 1?
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