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Excerpt from The Surface of Things
This suggests a general question of serious import in the life and work of men of letters, of science, and of art. Nay, we may classify these professions from this point of view, i.e., as the vocation itself tends to blend or to dis sociate the person and his work. The man of science is thus least hampered by the fear of the inopportune obtrusion of his personality' while at the other end of the scale, the artist.
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