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… and degraded. It was a dark night between two sunny days. The age of patronage had passed away. The age of general curiosity and intelligence had not arrived. The number of readers is at present so great that a popular author may … vols. (London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1898), vol. 8, p. 85-90. Of course, the self-celebration of the ‘age of general curiosity and intelligence’ was not universal, and the suspicion that commercialization and literary merit did not always …
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