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JEEVES TAKES CHARGE 33

ladyship and one of the gentlemen staying here— Mr. Maxwell, who is employed in an editorial capacity by one of the reviews—that it was her intention to start you almost immediately upon Nietzsche. You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.” “Get out!” ” Very good, sir.”

It's rummy how sleeping on a thing often makes you feel quite different about it. It’s happened to me over and over again. Somehow or other, when I woke next morning the old heart didn’t feel half so broken as it had done. It was a perfectly topping day, and there was something about the way the sun came in at the window and the row the birds were kicking up in the ivy th at made me half wonder whether Jeeves wasn’t right. After all, though she had a wonderful profile, was it such a catch being engaged to Florence Craye as the casual observer might imagine ? Wasn’t there something in what Jeeves had said about her character? I began to realise that my ideal wife was some lung quite different, something a lot more clinging and drooping and prattling, and what not.

I had got as far as this in thinking the thing out when th at “Types of Ethical Theory” caught my eye. I opened it, and I give you my honest word this was what hit me :

Of the two antithetic terms in the Greek philosophy one only was real and self-subsisting ; and that one was Ideal Thought as opposed to that which it has to Penetrate and mould. The other, corresponding to our Nature, was in itself phenomenal, unreal, without any Permanent footing, having no predicates that held true for two moments together; in short, redeemed from negation only by including indwelling realities appearing through. c