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tificialities--ingeniously contrived puppetsrather than human beings, and, on the whole, overrated by their creator. I seem to be using strong language; still, I have weighed it. arks, sometimes branching off and reaching beyond, soaring, in thevery choicest language, up to the very pinnacle of descriptive power. to make a punon the name of this club, under the impression, of course, that he is thefirst man that that idea has occurred to.

(See Chapters cxlix to cliii. Flowers,telegrams, and congratulations came, and there was a string of callers;but he saw no one beyond some intimate friends--the Gilders--late in theafternoon. His talk was often of infinity--the forces of creation--andit was likely to be satire of the orthodox conceptions, intermingled withheresies of his own devising. PAST AND PRESENT Box-Offic