Modern Society (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Modern Society

Modern society, concerning which you have bid me discourse to you, is this tricksy spirit, many featured and many-gestured, coming in a question able shape, andobringing with it airs from heaven and blasts from hell. Ihave spoken to'it, and it has shown me my father's ghost. How shall I speak of it, and tell you what it has taught me? You must think my alembic a nice one indeed, since you bid me to the analysis of those subtle and finely mingled forces. You have sent for me, perhaps, to receive a lesson instead of giving one. You may intend that, having tried and failed in this task, I shall learn, for the future, the difficult lesson of holding my peace. For so benevolent, so disinterested an intention, I may have more occasion to thank you beforehand, than you shall find to thank me, having heard me.

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