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SEE CATALOGUE AT END OF BOOK.
The New Spirit.
By Havelock Ellis.
“En portant à leur plus haut degré ses sentiments les plusintimes, on devient le chef de file d’un grand nombre d’autreshommes. Pour acquérir une valeur typique, il faut être le plusindividuel qu’il est possible.”
THIRD EDITION, WITH A NEW PREFACE.
London: Walter Scott, Ltd.,
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No alterations have been made in this edition.It is true that three of the figures here studiedwere living when the book was written; buttheir genius had matured, their work was for themost part done. Nothing they could producewould seriously modify one’s conception ofthem as aboriginal personal forces, the outcomeof the past, the initiators of the future. Apartfrom this, it seems to me a mistake to manipulateor add to one’s own completed work. IfI were to re-write it, I should doubtless write itdifferently; the Conclusion, for instance, whichis earliest in date, seems to me now ratherformal and