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COUNTERCHECK QUARREL-
SOME
I HASTEN to accept Mr. Randall Davies's offer New
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of
friendship, I doubt whether much
though
good can come of it if we are to go on arguing
about aesthetics. We are too far apart.
What Mr. Davies feels for a picture is some-
thing altogether different from what he feels
for a carpet, whereas the emotion I feel for a
carpet is of exactly the same kind as the
emotion I feel for a
picture, a statue, a cathe-
dral, or a pot. Also, my whole system of
aesthetics is based on this psychological fact,
so that it would, perhaps, have been wiser in
Mr. Davies to have stated the difference
between us and let it go at that.
If some one were to find fault with the
New Statesman on account of the flimsiness
and inadequacy of the arguments it adduces
in favour of private ownership of railways,
1 I wonder what Mr. Davies really said. Any one who
cares to know has only to consult the New Statesman for
March 7 or 14, 1914. I have not a copy by me. It looks
as though there had been a pretty firm offer of some sort :
it came to nothing, alas !
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