The Note-Book of An English Opium-Eater, And Miscellaneous Essays
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And indeed there can be no stronger proof of the utter obscurity in which his works have slumbered than that they should all have escaped prosecution. He also allowed himself to look too lightly and indulgently on the afflicting spectacle of female prostitution as it exists in London and in all great cities. This was the only point on which I was disposed to quarrel with him ; for I could not but view it as a greater reproach to human nature than the slave-trade or any sight of wretchedness tha...t the sun looks down upon. I often told him so ; and that I was at a loss to guess how a philosopher could allow him- self to view it simply as part of the equipage of civil life, and as reasonably making part of the establish- ment and furniture of a great city as police-offices, lamp-lighting, or newspapers. Waiving however this one instance of something like compliance with the brutal spirit of the world, on all other subjects he was eminently unworldly, child-like, simple-minded, and upright.
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And indeed there can be no stronger proof of the utter obscurity in which his works have slumbered than that they should all have escaped prosecution. He also allowed himself to look too lightly and indulgently on the afflicting spectacle of female prostitution as it exists in London and in all great cities. This was the only point on which I was disposed to quarrel with him ; for I could not but view it as a greater reproach to human nature than the slave-trade or any sight of wretchedness tha...t the sun looks down upon. I often told him so ; and that I was at a loss to guess how a philosopher could allow him- self to view it simply as part of the equipage of civil life, and as reasonably making part of the establish- ment and furniture of a great city as police-offices, lamp-lighting, or newspapers. Waiving however this one instance of something like compliance with the brutal spirit of the world, on all other subjects he was eminently unworldly, child-like, simple-minded, and upright.
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