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Oct 1, 2026
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And this is where we have to dive into the deep end of the pool, because Ruskin and Pater were the architects of a philosophy that would completely consume Wilde, a philosophy called aestheticism.
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Okay, yes.
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Aestheticism, which is often distilled down to a catchphrase that I think is wildly misunderstood today: art for art's sake.
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Constantly misunderstood.
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Yeah.
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Wells and the Giants 6.
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Christmas and the Aesthetes 7.
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Omar and the Sacred Vine 8.
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Mildness of the Yellow Press 9.
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For more information or to volunteer, visit LibriVox.org Heretics by G. K. Chesterton Chapter 6 Christmas and the Aesthetes The world is round, so round that the schools of optimism and pessimism have been arguing from the beginning whether it is the right way up.
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The difficulty does not arise so much from the mere fact that good and evil are mingled in roughly equal proportions.
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Five, Mr. H.G. Wells and the Giants.
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Six, Christmas and the Aesthetes.
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Seven, Omar and the Sacred Vine.
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Eight, Mildness of the Yellow Press.
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For more information or to volunteer, visit LibriVox.org. Heretics by G.K. Chesterton.
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Chapter six.
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Christmas and the Aesthetes.
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The world is round, so round that the schools of optimism and pessimism have been arguing from the beginning whether it is the right way up.