Long essay that begins: "e;There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art. All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface; it is on the surface that we perceive their beauty, fitness, and significance; and to pry below is to be appalled by their emptiness and shocked by the coarseness of the strings and pulleys. In a similar way, psychology itself, when pushed to any nicety, discovers an abhorrent baldness, but rather from the fault of our analysis than from any poverty native to the mind."e;
ISBN: | 9781455370955 |
Publication date: | 1st March 2018 |
Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher: | Distributed By PublishDrive |
Format: | Ebook (Epub) |