tailieunhanh - The Man of Letters as a Man of Business

Literature is at once the most intimate and the most articulate of the arts. It cannot impart its effect through the senses or the nerves as the other arts can; it is beautiful only through the intelligence; it is the mind speaking to the mind; until it has been put into absolute terms, of an invariable significance, it does not exist at all. It cannot awaken this emotion in one, and that in another; if it fails to express precisely the meaning of the author, if it does not say HIM, it says nothing, and is nothing. So that when a poet has put. | The Man of Letters as a Man of Business by 1 The Man of Letters as a Man of Business by William Dean Howells This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Man of Letters as a Man of Business Author William Dean Howells Posting Date July 23 2008 EBook 724 Release Date November 1996 Language English Character set encoding ASCII START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MAN OF LETTERS MAN OF BUSINESS Produced by Anthony J. Adam. HTML version by Al Haines. THE MAN OF LETTERS AS A MAN OF BUSINESS by William Dean Howells I think that every man ought to work for his living without exception and that when he has once avouched The Man of Letters as a Man of Business by 2 his willingness to work society should provide him with work and warrant him a living. I do not think any man ought to live by an art. A man s art should be his privilege when he has proven his fitness to exercise it and has otherwise earned his daily bread and its results should be free to all. There is an instinctive sense of this even in the midst of the grotesque confusion of our economic being people feel that there is something profane something impious in taking money for a picture or a poem or a statue. Most of all the artist himself feels this. He puts on a bold front with the world to be sure and brazens it out as Business but he knows very well that there is something false and vulgar in it and that the work which cannot be truly priced in money cannot be truly paid in money. He can of course say that the priest takes money for reading the marriage service for christening the new-born babe and for saying the last office for the dead that the physician sells healing that justice itself is paid for and that he is merely a party to the thing that is and must be. He can say that as the thing is .

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• Business mediator
• Business trip
• Economic democracy
• Electronic business
• Government ownership
• Bank ownership complexity
• Loan quality
• Foreign ownership
• Non performing loan
• Government linked companies
• Corporate governance
• Malaysian listed companies
• Firm performance
• The role of state ownership in regulating
• Overinvestment on performance
• Worsen firm performance
• State owned enterprises
• Government owned companies
• State controlling shareholder
• Stock liquidity
• Information asymmetries
• Trading activity