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this class of literature being found
in a goodly number of the utopias,
all of which I think labour under the
same defect of not
recognizing, that man always has
had a satanic seasoning, always
has had enough of the thoroughly
earthy in him to ensure a good
anchorage to this mundane life & its soil

[red pen: See 49. A. 49. B. 49.C]

It is getting late I see and I must
hasten to a close. Dictionaries
and Bibliographies are represented
by more than 400 items, and
fine art has not only some original
Ruskins - the etchings by his own hand -
- but there is a nice show of "Annuals"
"Gifts" & "Offerings" with their highly finished
delicate steel engravings - common
in the first years of this century,
but now getting scarce, and dying

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