Chapter 2

THE MORAL BASIS.

I. To a moralist who had said that there was a want of moral fibre in the intellectual, especially in poets and artists 67

II. To an undisciplined writer 80

III. To a friend who suggested the speculation "which of the moral virtues was most essential to the intellectual life" 91

IV. To a moralist who said that intellectual culture was not conducive to sexual morality 98