CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTORY NOTE . ix CHAPTER I i Concerning Bagshot and his Diaries. Theories of Friendship. Some Friends de- scribed. Bagshots Religion. The search for a sequence. CHAPTER II Bores and Boredom. The Permanent and the Political. The Eleventh-Hour Man and the Enemies of Youth. Politics and Democracy. CHAPTER III Immortality and Animal Instinct. The Eternal Life. The Secret of Youth. The Poetry of the Future. A Question about Death. The most disagreeable fact in the world. CHAPTER IV 31 Shyness aVice. ...
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CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTORY NOTE . ix CHAPTER I i Concerning Bagshot and his Diaries. Theories of Friendship. Some Friends de- scribed. Bagshots Religion. The search for a sequence. CHAPTER II Bores and Boredom. The Permanent and the Political. The Eleventh-Hour Man and the Enemies of Youth. Politics and Democracy. CHAPTER III Immortality and Animal Instinct. The Eternal Life. The Secret of Youth. The Poetry of the Future. A Question about Death. The most disagreeable fact in the world. CHAPTER IV 31 Shyness aVice. Concerning false beards. The Dramatic Temperament and the Art- The Unexplored Interior. In praise of Man. Wealth and Poverty. A new form of Endowment. 13 23 CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER V 43 Ideals and Rights. Zealots for Moderation. Maxims for War-time. Pain and its Limits. Some personal experiences. Modern Surgery. CHAPTER VI 54 A talk about Money. The Needy and the Greedy. A foolish kind of Paradox. A Utopian Form of Will. A few Maxims. CHAPTER VII 63 What happens when we arent there. The Diffusion of Consciousness. Thought and Fact. About Persons. A Platitude usually forgotten A division of Gifts. CHAPTER VIII 73 Man the Parasite and Man the Monarch. Many views of the Great Adventure. On Life in general. A deeply disgraceful Dream. CHAPTER IX 83 A Bachelor onWomen. Womans Advant- age. A change of parts. Womans Thrift. Her Morality. Her Logic. The restless Analyst. The Secret in the Common-place. The limits of Bagshots knowledge. CHAPTERX 95 Random Reflections. Thrift and Laziness. Current Euphemisms. A Providential Fact. vi CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER XI 103 Gambling an Escape from the Rational. Systems and the Unsystematic. The In- sincerity of politicians. Homage to imaginary fools.Patriotic Antipathies and International Pace-makers. The Deceitful- ness of Diplomacy. Compensating Qualities. CHAPTER XII 113 Social Inequalities. An argument for mes- alliances. Types of Men. The opposite of Education. No Literature without specula- tion. The Mortifications of Bagshot. CHAPTER XIII 124 Worldly Wisdom the golden rules. Surface Values. Seek the Prizes of your call- ing. Some mixed maxims. That incon- trollable conscience. As between Friends. CHAPTER XIV 132 Literature and the Middle-aged. A Test of Genius. The Utilitarian rebuked. Literary Changelings. An Orchestrated Literature. A Blending of Men. The Shelf of the Disregarded. SomeRandomObservations. Two kinds of Life. Lifes Great Irony. The Last Entry. vn INTRODUCTORY NOTE WHILE the chapters collected into this volume were passing through the Westminster Gazette, many inquiries reached me about the identity of Bagshot. The answer to these questions would add nothing to what is contained in the chapters themselves. The merit of Bagshot, if any, as a commentator lies in his point of view. His calling, for instance, enables him to know something of affairs, while it compels him to refrain from partisanship and his attitude towards life in general is roughly on the same lines. His greatest advantage of all is perhaps that, since he has passed from the scene, it is useless to dispute with him. There comes back to me a saying of his own that one mans paradox is another mans platitude, and since he never aspires ix
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