Shadows and Realities

Maroon cloth 12mo, 106pp. Gilt-stamped title, t.e.g. Inscribed, "With the author's compliments" on the front flyleaf. A romantic series of short essays advocating for the return to nature and immaterial forms of beauty (like music). His best known publications were 'Racial Contrasts Distinguishing Traits of The Graeco-Latins and Teutons' and 'The Basis of Musical Pleasure: Together With a Consideration of the Opera Problem,' advertised with complimentary blurbs on the last two pages. Very Good+ with light rubbing and sunning to exterior, cover has a slight dent at upper edge; internally clean and crisp, printed on quality stock. (OCLC: 5)

"The following pages exhibit the misconceptions underlying the prevailing ideals of material glory and outward success... There are other goods besides the material and social ones. Happiness, morality, wealth of emotion, intellectual culture, religious faith,—subjective rather than objective conditions,—are the really valuable things in life. And these are by no means to be estimated on the basis of external manifestation. For the realm of things and appearances is but a distorted mirror of the realm of feeling and significance. Life itself is the measure of life, not the external aspects which it happens to assume." (7-8)