Human Intercourse

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Philip Gilbert Hamerton. Human Intercourse
Human Intercourse
Table of Contents
PREFACE
HUMAN INTERCOURSE
ESSAY I
ESSAY II
ESSAY III
ESSAY IV
ESSAY V
ESSAY VI
ESSAY VII
ESSAY VIII
ESSAY IX
ESSAY X
ESSAY XI
ESSAY XII
ESSAY XIII
ESSAY XIV
ESSAY XV
ESSAY XVI
ESSAY XVII
ESSAY XVIII
ESSAY XIX
ESSAY XX
ESSAY XXI
ESSAY XXII
ESSAY XXIII
ESSAY XXIV
ESSAY XXV
ESSAY XXVI
INDEX
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Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Published by Good Press, 2021
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I myself have known a certain painter (not belonging to the English school) who had a severe and elevated ideal of his art. As his earnings were small he went to live in the country for economy. He then began to associate intimately with people to whom all high aims in painting were unintelligible. Gradually he himself lost his interest in them and his nobler purposes were abandoned. Finally, art itself was abandoned and he became a coffee-house politician.
So it is with all rare and exceptional pursuits if once we allow ourselves to take, in all respects, the color of the common world. It is impossible to keep up a foreign language, an art, a science, if we are living away from other followers of our pursuit and cannot endure solitude.
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