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The orator's Scylla and Charybdis.—How difficult it was at Athens to speak in such a way as to prevail upon the audience in favour of the cause without repelling them by the form or diverting their attention from the cause. How difficult it is even now in France to write thus.
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Invalids and art.—Against any kind of affliction and mental misery we ought to try first of all, a change of diet and hard manual labour. But men have, in these cases, acquired the habit of resorting to intoxicating means: to art, for instance to their own detriment and to that of art. Are you not aware that by clamouring for art in your invalid state you transfer your disease on the artists?
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Apparent toleration.—These are good, kindly, rational words on and in favour of science; but alas! I see through this, your toleration of science. In your heart's core you think despite all this that you do not stand in need of it, that you are generous in admitting, any, in advocating it, the more so, because science does not show the same generosity to your opinions. Do you know that you have no right whatever to this show of toleration that this gracious demeanour is a sererer
