[Note: I have made the following spelling changes: qualites which strike toqualities which strike, revelled in to reveled in, protegés toprotégés, voluptuous femininty to voluptuous femininity, tyrrannise totyrannise, Montagus to Montagues, Zarathrustra to Zarathustra, antiChrist to anti-Christ,Car nous voulous to Car nous voulons, Gélentvotre chair to Gèlent votre chair, slips in into slips in, irrresponsible a temperament to irresponsible a temperament, commonoccurences to common occurrences, philanthrophy to philanthropy, demogorgon toDemogorgon, somethings which palls upon us to something which palls upon us, neverencounted to never encountered, Arimathaea to Arimathea, the the contemptuous libels tothe contemptuous libels, lapséd soul to lapsedsoul, philsophical motto to philosophical motto, sybilline to sibylline, pseudo-latin topseudo-Latin, and ninteenth century to nineteenth century.]
SUSPENDED JUDGMENTS
ESSAYS ON BOOKS AND SENSATIONS
JOHN COWPER POWYS
1916
G. ARNOLD SHAW
NEW YORK
Copyright, 1916, by G. Arnold Shaw
Copyright in Great Britain and the Colonies
DEDICATED
TO MY DEAR FRIEND
BERNARD PRICE O'NEILL
| The Art of Discrimination | 3 |
| Montaigne | 17 |
| Pascal | 47 |
| Voltaire | 63 |
| Rousseau | 83 |
| Balzac | 107 |
| Victor Hugo | 133 |
| Guy de Maupassant | 149 |
| Anatole France | 171 |
| Paul Verlaine | 197 |
| Remy de Gourmont | 225 |
| William Blake | 257 |
| Byron | 279 |
| Emily Brontë | 313 |
| Joseph Conrad | 337 |
| Henry James | 367 |
| Oscar Wilde | 401 |
| Suspended Judgment | 425 |
THE ART OF DISCRIMINATION
The world divides itself into people who can discrimi