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An episode in the doings of the dualized

Chapter 9: AD FINIS.
By Eveleen Laura Mason
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The narrative centers on Ethelbert Daksha and her family's cultivated ideals and precarious finances, portraying their resistance to a society obsessed with wealth. It contrasts their aesthetic, culturally mixed heritage and moral convictions with Reginald Grove's upbringing in a money-driven household and his resulting discontent. Through social encounters and domestic detail the story examines the clash between spiritual aspiration and material ambition, the shaping of character by inherited influences, and the tensions that arise when idealism confronts the practical pressures of modern social life.

AD FINIS.

“... the lover ascends to the highest beauty (to the love and knowledge of the Divinity) by steps on this ladder of created souls. Somewhat like this the truly-wise have told us of love, in all ages; the doctrine is not old nor is it new.

“If Plato, Plutarch and Apuleius taught it, so have Petrarch, Angelo and Milton. It awaits a truer unfolding in opposition and rebuke to that subterranean prudence which presides at marriage, with words that take hold on the upper world, whilst one eye is prowling in the cellar; so that its greatest discourse has a savor of hams and powdering tubs.

“Worst, when this sensualism intrudes on the education of young women, and teaches that marriage means nothing but a housewife’s thrift; and that woman’s life has no other aim.”—Emerson.

FINIS.

EASTERTIDE OF 1898.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
  1. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling.
  2. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.