The Pleasures of Ignorance
by Robert Lynd
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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It is impossible to take a walk in the country with an average townsman - especially, perhaps, in April or May - without being amazed at the vast continent of his ignorance. It is impossible to take a walk in the country oneself without being amazed at the vast continent of one's own ignorance. Thousands of men and women live and die without knowing the difference between a beech and an elm, between the song of a thrush and the song...
Chapters (53)
- TO JAMES WINDER GOOD CHAPTER PAGE
- I
- THE PLEASURES OF IGNORANCE
- II
- THE HERRING FLEET
- III
- THE BETTING MAN
- IV
- THE HUM OF INSECTS
- V
- CATS
- VI
- MAY
- VII
- NEW YEAR PROPHECIES
- VIII
- ON KNOWING THE DIFFERENCE
- IX
- THE INTELLECTUAL SIDE OF HORSE-RACING
- X
- WHY WE HATE INSECTS
- XI
- VIRTUE
- XII
- JUNE
- XIII
- ON FEELING GAY
- XIV
- IN THE TRAIN
- XV
- THE MOST CURIOUS ANIMAL
- XVI
- THE OLD INDIFFERENCE
- XVII
- EGGS: AN EASTER HOMILY
- XVIII
- ENTER THE SPRING
- XIX
- THE DAREDEVIL BARBER
- XX
- WEEDS: AN APPRECIATION
- XXI
- A JUROR IN WAITING
- XXII
- THE THREE-HALFPENNY BIT
- XXIII
- THE MORALS OF BEANS
- XXIV
- ON SEEING A JOKE
- XXV
- GOING TO THE DERBY
- XXVI
- THIS BLASTED WORLD
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