HAVE WE BECOME TOO CLEVER?
“Our sense of reality has led possibly too easily to a sense of grime. Our noses arc too close to the ground to-day, just as in the ‘seventies our chins were too high in the air. But it is the sense of morality that has yielded the greatest changes. In the ‘seventies the novelists took it for granted that once you wore married you were done for. In the modern novel, as none of the characters are married at all the old question scarcely arises. But there are other questions. We have lost something. What? Shades of Charles Reade and Henry Kingsley answer us! I see them standing in their Olympian shrouds gazing down upon us. On their genial countenances there are shadows of admiration, but also implications of pity. Can it ho that they pity us because we are so- clever?”—Mr Hugh Walpole.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1929, Page 8
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149HAVE WE BECOME TOO CLEVER? Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1929, Page 8
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