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looked on as a cheap entertainment ; but it is 

 really one of the most expensive. It is true 

 that we can all have front seats, and we do not 

 exactly need to dress for it as we do for the 

 opera ; but the conditions under which it is to 

 be enjoyed are rather dear. Among them I 

 should name a good suit of clothes, including 

 some trifling ornament, not including back 

 hair for one sex, or the parting of it in the 

 middle for the other. I should add also a good 

 dinner, well cooked and digestible ; and the cost 

 of a fair education, extended, perhaps, through 

 generations in which sensibility and love of 

 beauty grew. What I mean is, that if a man 

 is hungry and naked, and half a savage, or with 

 the love of beauty undeveloped in him, a sunset 

 is thrown away on him : so that it appears that 

 the conditions of the enjoyment of a sunset are 

 as costly as anything in our civilization. 



Of course there is no such thing as absolute 

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