Selections from Walter Pater (Classic Reprint)

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The introduction follows a course which is of the first necessity in a study of Pater, if necessary only at first; it is simply an attempt to state what Pater's ideas and Opinions were without criticism or com ment. Pater himself advises a different course, but something of this sort is necessary as a begin ning. It may seem that there should be more at tempt to correlate ideas and actions, to explain Pater's books by his life. But in this case the books are the main thing: one must know them thor oughly and one will then have the best of the man and may go farther or not.

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