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Principles of Freedom

CHAPTER XI
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If we let him desert the field of life, go his way and walk the world, let us not at least hail him as a hero.
The Repertory Theatre is the nursery of this particular art-cult, and 'twould relieve some of us to talk freely about it.

The Repertory Theatre has already become fashionable, and is quite rapidly become a nuisance.

Men are making songs and plays and lectures for art's sake, for the praise of a coterie or to shock the bourgeois--above all shock the bourgeois.

A certain type of artist delights in shocking the bourgeois--a riot over a play gives him great satisfaction.

In passing, one must note with exasperation, perhaps with some misgiving, how men raise a riot over something not worth a thought, and will not fight for things for which they ought to die.


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