Sang merrily his lay.”
But aside from the royal habits, there was no imagination, no finesse to seduction. It was a stereotyped affair, a furtive irregularity, a silly little sin. The seduction of the middle classes was a monotonous business, popular only by reason of the danger it entailed. It has remained for our modern world to raise it to a place of dignity among the leading interests of all society.
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Bulfinch’s Mythology.
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The Golden Bough. Sir J. Frazer.
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Colored Stars. E. Powys Mathers. Houghton Mifflin.
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Cf. The Complete Peerage.
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THIS MODERN WORLD
What are the reasons for this recent tendency? There are many answers. In the first place, mankind need no longer turn the whole of its energy to defence and sustenance. The life of the average man is not completely devoted to his business. He is a rarely active person if one-third of his day is given over to actual work.