"The fashionable and vulgar are after all but the expression of man's gregarious instinct. Every poor mortal is torn by the conflicting dreads of being 'common-place, ' and of being 'eccentric.' He, and more particularly she, is continually imitating and avoiding imitation, trying to be singular and yet like other people. In the exquisitely fashionable and in the entirely vulgar the sheep-like longing is triumphant, and the revolting individual has disappeared. The former is a mechanical vehicle upon which the new 'correct ...
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"The fashionable and vulgar are after all but the expression of man's gregarious instinct. Every poor mortal is torn by the conflicting dreads of being 'common-place, ' and of being 'eccentric.' He, and more particularly she, is continually imitating and avoiding imitation, trying to be singular and yet like other people. In the exquisitely fashionable and in the entirely vulgar the sheep-like longing is triumphant, and the revolting individual has disappeared. The former is a mechanical vehicle upon which the new 'correct thing' rides forth, to extort the astonishment of men; the latter a lifeless bier bearing its corrupt and unrecognisable remains away to final oblivion, amidst universal execration
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Add this copy of Select Conversations With an Uncle (Now Extinct) and to cart. $54.50, very good condition, Sold by Arapiles Mountain Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Castlemaine, VIC, AUSTRALIA, published 1895 by John Lane.
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VG+ 12mo. olive cloth gilt, teg, else uncut (rebound with replacement endpapers, occ. spots and toning, else clean & bright throughout); pp. [x], 118 (last blank), 2 (blank)], 16 (pubs. cat)], with title page illustration. A very good copy in a new binding. The author's first published book of fiction, a series of essays and stories original published in the Pall Mall gazette in 1893 and 1894.
