The Secret Life: Being the Book of a Heretic

CONTENTS

	Page
L'Enfant Terrible	1
An Optimistic Cynic	7
A Poet Sheep-rancher	10
An Eaten Cake	13
Concerning Elbows on the Table	16
An Autumn Impulse	17
John-a'-Dreams	19
The Fountain of Salmacis	41
Two Siegfrieds	44
A Door Ajar	47
At Time of Death	49
The Curse of Babel	49
The Fourth Dimension	52
The Ant and the Lark	58
The DÖppelganger	63
"A Young Man's Fancy"	73
An Arabian Looking-glass	78
The Cry of the Women	80
The Beauty of Cruelty	95
The Duke of Wellington's Trees	101
The Boy with the Goose	103
A God Indeed	104
A Question of Skulls	110
The Modern Woman and Marriage	112
The Ideal Husband	120
A New Law of Health	126
"Dead, Dead, Dead"	139
Verbal Magic	140
Hamlet	143
Ghosts	149
Amateur Saints	153
The Zeitgeist	159
The Abdication of Man	187
Life	205
Portable Property	206
Are American Parents Selfish?	208
A Question of Heredity	219
The Little Dumb Brother	220
Fever Dreams	248
A Misunderstood Moralist	250
The Pleasures of Pessimism	255
Moral Pauperism	257
On a Certain Lack of Humour in Frenchmen	258
The Value of a Soul	267
A Grateful Spaniard	271
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