Human Intercourse (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Human Intercourse I will not close this preface without saying that the happiness of sympathetic human intercourse seems to me incomparably greater than any other pleasure. I may be supposed to have passed the age of enthusiastic illusions, yet I would at any time rather pass a week With a real friend in any place that afforded simple shelter than with an indifferent person in a palace. In saying this I am thinking of real experiences. One of my friends who is devoted to archaeological excavations has often invited me to share his life in a hut or a cot tage, and I have invariably found that the pleasure of 3 his society far overbalanced the absence of luxury. On the other hand, I have sometimes endured extreme ennui at sumptuous feasts in richly appointed houses. The result of experience, in my case, has been to confirm a youthful conviction that the value of certain persons is not to be estimated by comparison with anything else. I was always a believer, and am so at this day more than ever, in the happiness of genuine human inter course, but I prefer solitude to the false imitation of it. It is in this as in other pleasuresi the better we appre l ciate the real thing, the less we are disposed to accept thé spurious Copy as a substitute./ By far the greater part of what passes for human intercourse is not inter couise at all, but only acting, of which the highest Object and most considerable meiit is to conceal the weariness that accompanies its hollow Observances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.