hardly have got it from the French mean by it something om what we do; though it is - we did get it from them, and owdlerized the term. At all r it stands for, it long since social asset for women, and a se for men. Perhaps it came in ered that artists were human , for many years, we never t without using the word. It rily imply "charm," for people spective of temperament, and espective of charm. It is somePhilistine never has: that we by all the gods of clarity, does ncy, in one degree or another, wolt against convention. The was "different," who did not s interfere with his epigrams, fraid to express himself, who very kind-how well we know otley, who turned every occa[134] paradoxes. The manifestations those logical cre expressed your people's feelings said. They did gram, the basic intoxicated peo fore they dream they think, whe if you talk with ought to be don wild things you end perfectly p This tactical have at last b ingly, hostility what to take its at the present The most strik are now making tue, instead of have been oper take their chan paradoxes. The people who frowned on manifestations of "temperament" were mer those logical creatures who believed that if J expressed your opinions regardless of ot people's feelings, you probably meant what y said. They did not know the pathology of gram, the basic truth of which is that wo intoxicated people express an opinion long fore they dream of holding it. They say w they think, whether they think it or not. Or if you talk with incessant variety about w ought to be done, and then never do any of wild things you recommend, you become in end perfectly powerless as a foe of conventi This tactical fact the unconventional f have at last become aware of; and, acco ingly, hostility to convention is ceasing so what to take itself out in phrases. Conventio at the present moment, are really menad The most striking sign of this is that peo are now making unconventionality a social tue, instead of an unsocial vice. The switc have been opened, and the laden trains m take their chance of a destination. contradict, in a shocked tone, if end is said to be conventional? est friends are conventional, I but even I should never think em to others thus. people are supposed to lack e power to think for themns to be pretty well taken for u cannot think for yourself, and what the majority of your kind gree with the majority, it must u have no mental processes.) o lack charm: to have nothing I delightful to give you. And, vare (paradoxes are popular) perilous to society, because they because they do not march with use they cling to conservative ile the parties of progress are world. All these reproaches are, eyed in the one word. a great mistake to confound with simplicity-with that simndicates a brain inadequate to [136] bull-roarers and the anthropologis than other scient Augustan as an can be: "nihil sake, let it be hu substitute for hi scientists, even t think we ought t ing to us that p times as conven codes are almost minds to master dominance of Ro I wish he would Messrs. Spencer group-marriage ines. If, in three posing he were a he could marry or even the deat his subtlety into wasted on civiliz Some one may Duli-roarers and leopara-societies. the anthropologists have any more perspectiv than other scientists. I am as near being an o Augustan as any twentieth-century observ can be: "nihil humani," etc. But, for God sake, let it be human! Palæontology is a po substitute for history. No: I do not love an scientists, even the anthropologists. But I d think we ought to be grateful to them for pro ing to us that primitive people are a hundre times as conventional as we; and that the codes are almost too complicated for Europea minds to master. If any one is still under th dominance of Rousseau, Chateaubriand et Ci I wish he would sit down impartially befo Messrs. Spencer and Gillen's exposition group-marriage among the Australian abori ines. If, in three hours, he knows whom, su posing he were a Matthurie of the dingo toten he could marry without incurring punishmen or even the death penalty, he had better tal his subtlety into Central Australia: he is qui wasted on civilization. Some one may retort that I am not exact |