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The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax

Chapter 5 PLATO AND THE GENERAL ELECTRIC WORKS

Word Count: 659    |    Released on: 01/12/2017

railroads let me, I drop in on him awhile and quarrel about art. It's a good old-fashioned comfortable, disorderly conversation we have generally, th

f we wanted to, but we both know, and know every time, that in a few minutes we shall

ple-well, people like me, for instance, poking blindly around among all these modern brand-new things hoping that in spite of appearances there is something one can do with them that will make them beautiful enough to go with the rest. I'm afraid Brim gets a little

say you were more Greek than I am, but when one thinks of it, you are just going around liking the things the Greeks liked 3000 years ago, and I am around liking the things a Greek would like now, that is, as well as I can. I don't flatter myself I begin to enjoy the wireless telegraph to-day the way Plato would if he had the chance, and Alcibiades in

t begin to see the poetry in the mac

ave see

this planet, making it small enough, we

night with a whirl of visions, with a whirl of t

h lightning and with flame hammering out the wills of cities, putting in the underpinnings of nations, and it seemed to me me that Bliss Carman and William Watson would not be ashamed of them ... brother-

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1 Chapter 1 AS GOOD AS OURS2 Chapter 2 ON BEING BUSY AND STILL3 Chapter 3 ON NOT SHOWING OFF4 Chapter 4 ON MAKING PEOPLE PROUD OF THE WORLD5 Chapter 5 PLATO AND THE GENERAL ELECTRIC WORKS6 Chapter 6 HEWING AWAY ON THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH7 Chapter 7 THE GRUDGE AGAINST THE INFINITE8 Chapter 8 SYMBOLISM IN MODERN ART9 Chapter 9 THE MACHINES AS ARTISTS10 Chapter 10 THE IDEA OF INCARNATION11 Chapter 11 THE IDEA OF SIZE12 Chapter 12 THE IDEA OF LIBERTY13 Chapter 13 THE IDEA OF IMMORTALITY14 Chapter 14 No.1415 Chapter 15 THE IDEA OF GOD16 Chapter 16 THE IDEA OF THE UNSEEN AND INTANGIBLE17 Chapter 17 THE IDEA OF GREAT MEN18 Chapter 18 THE NEXT MORNING.19 Chapter 19 NEIGHBORS TO ABBOTSMEAD.20 Chapter 20 PAST AND PRESENT.21 Chapter 21 A DISCOVERY.22 Chapter 22 PRELIMINARIES.23 Chapter 23 BESSIE SHOWS CHARACTER.24 Chapter 24 A QUIET POLICY.25 Chapter 25 A DINNER AT BRENTWOOD.26 Chapter 26 A MORNING AT BRENTWOOD.27 Chapter 27 SOME DOUBTS AND FEARS.28 Chapter 28 IN MINSTER COURT.29 Chapter 29 LADY LATIMER IN WOLDSHIRE.30 Chapter 30 MY LADY REVISITS OLD SCENES.31 Chapter 31 A SUCCESS AND A REPULSE.32 Chapter 32 A HARD STRUGGLE.33 Chapter 33 A VISIT TO CASTLEMOUNT.34 Chapter 34 BESSIE'S PEACEMAKING.35 Chapter 35 ABBOTSMEAD IN SHADOW.36 Chapter 36 DIPLOMATIC.37 Chapter 37 SUNDAY MORNING AT BEECHHURST.38 Chapter 38 SUNDAY EVENING AT BROOK.39 Chapter 39 AT FAIRFIELD.40 Chapter 40 ANOTHER RIDE WITH THE DOCTOR.41 Chapter 41 FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES.42 Chapter 42 HOW FRIENDS MAY FALL OUT..43 Chapter 43 BETWEEN THEMSELVES.44 Chapter 44 A LONG, DULL DAY.45 Chapter 45 THE SQUIRE'S WILL.46 Chapter 46 TENDER AND TRUE.47 Chapter 47 GOODNESS PREVAILS.48 Chapter 48 CERTAIN OPINIONS.49 Chapter 49 BESSIE'S LAST RIDE WITH THE DOCTOR.50 Chapter 50 FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE.