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a Cornish Window, by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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Title: From a Cornish Window A New Edition
Author: Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Release Date: March 29, 2008 [EBook #24946]
Language: English
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FROM A CORNISH WINDOW.
By
ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH.
DEDICATION.
MY DEAR WILLIAM ARCHER,
Severe and ruthlessly honest man that you are, you will find that the levities and the gravities of this book do not accord, and will say so.
I plead only that they were written at intervals, and in part for recreation, during years in which their author has striven to maintain a cheerful mind while a popular philosophy which he believed to be cheap took possession of men and translated itself into politics which he knew to be nasty. I may summarise it, in its own jargon, as the philosophy of the Superman, and succinctly describe it as an attempt to stretch a part of the Darwinian hypothesis and make it cover the whole of man's life and conduct. I need not remind you how fatally its doctrine has flattered, in our time and in our country, the worst instincts of the half-educated: but let us remove it from all spheres in which we are interested and contemplate