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- W47886534 abstract "twain said that it isn't what they don't know that hurts people, it's what they do know that isn't so. This is true of Kipling. If people don't know about Kipling they can read Kipling, and then they'll know about Kipling: it's ideal. But most people already do know about Kipling not very much, but too much: they know what isn't so, or what might just as well not be so, it matters so little. They know that, just as Calvin Coolidge's preacher was against sin and the Snake was for it, Kipling was for imperialism; he talked about the white man's burden; he was a crude popular immensely popular writer who got popular by writing If, and On the Road to Mandalay, and The Jungle Book, and stories about India like Somerset Maugham, and children's stories; he wrote, is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet; he wrote, The female of the species is more deadly than the male or was that Pope? Somebody wrote it. In short: Kipling was someone people used to think was wonderful, but we know better than that now. People certainly didn't know better than that then. Dear William James begins. (It is hard to remember, hard to believe, that anyone ever called Henry James Harry, but if it had to be done, William James was the right man to do it.) Last Sunday I dined with Howells at the Childs', and was delighted to hear him say that you were both a friend and an admirer of Rudyard Kipling. I am ashamed to say that I have been ashamed to write of that infant phenomenon, not knowing, with your exquisitely re-" @default.
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- W47886534 title "On Preparing to Read Kipling" @default.
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