英语人文读本·英国篇

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　　But this is, clearly, not the whole story. The modern cult of beautyis not exclusively a function （in the mathematical sense） of wealthIf it were, then the personal appearance industries would have beenas hardly hit by the trade depression as any other business. But, aswe have seen, they have not suffered. Women are retrenching onother things than their faces. The cult of beauty must therefore besymptomatic of changes than have taken place outside the economicsphere. Of what changes？ Of the changes, I suggest, in the status Ofwomen; of the changes in our attitude towards "the merely physical.　　Women, it is obvious, are freer than in the past. Freer not only toperform the generally unenviable social functions hitherto4 reservedto the male, but also freer to exercise the more pleasing, feminineprivilege of being attractive. They have the right, if not to be lessvirtuous than their grandmothers, at any rate5 to look less virtuous.The British Matron not long since a creature of austere and eventerrifying aspect, now does her best to achieve and perenniallypreserve the appearance of what her predecessor would have describedas a Lost Woman. She often succeeds. But we are not shocked——atany rate, not morally shocked.

书籍目录

1.The Beauty Industry2.Meditation on the Moon3.Punishment Never Cures Anything4.Universities and Their Function5.In July6.On Book-Buying7.What I Have Lived For8.August9.The Child Angel: A Dream10.Insouciance11.Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature12.Journey Through a Tunnel13.Unworldliness of the Early Christians14.Take Your Home into Your Own Hands15.Of Boldness16.Of Studies17.Of Youth and Age18.Of Wisdom for a Man's Self19.My Life Is Over20.Politics and the English Language21.Getting Up on Cold Mornings22.A Passion for Cities23.First Snow24.The Definition of a Gentleman……

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