. Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes . / //,;;,/, Jn-», //*< -A,/,,,;/,,,/ /,/ POETEY : THE SATUKDAY CLUB : ETC. 243 this much-entitled Club. They called it The Mu-tual Admiration Society, and sometimes laughed alittle, as though the designation were a trifle deroga-tory. Yet the brethren within the pale were nowisedisturbed by this witticism. If there was not,says Hohnes, a certain amount of mutual admira-tion among some of those I have mentioned,1 it wasa great pity, and implied a defect in the nature ofmen who were otherwise largely endowed. Possiblyone or two of these gentlemen m
. Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes . / //,;;,/, Jn-», //*< -A,/,,,;/,,,/ /,/ POETEY : THE SATUKDAY CLUB : ETC. 243 this much-entitled Club. They called it The Mu-tual Admiration Society, and sometimes laughed alittle, as though the designation were a trifle deroga-tory. Yet the brethren within the pale were nowisedisturbed by this witticism. If there was not,says Hohnes, a certain amount of mutual admira-tion among some of those I have mentioned,1 it wasa great pity, and implied a defect in the nature ofmen who were otherwise largely endowed. Possiblyone or two of these gentlemen might have been criti-cised for admiring themselves, but it did seem hard toblame them for being sufficiently intelligent and gen-erous to admire each other. Would the scoffers havebeen better pleased to see them openly abusing orslyly depreciating each other ? There are enough suchspectacles elsewhere in literature. Outside the sacred penetralia which were shutwithin his own front door, nothing else in Dr. Holmesslife gave him so much pleas
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