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The Importance of Time

We are a feeble-minded race in this respect that we require to be constantly bribed and tempted by illusions. The secret government of the world seems indeed to be penetrated by a good-natured irony. We must be tenderly wooed into doing things which we should otherwise neglect by a sense of high importance. It will not be enough to have got rid of the combative and sorted and vulgar elements of the world unless a very active spirit of some kind is taken its place. Morris himself intended that art should supply the missing forest but it's apt to be a lonely affair as few artists have leisure or inclination to admire one another's work. But Wordsworth's poems are useful in

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