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pst.000020203290-04	nan	The Dial  v.75 July-Dec	1923		.txt	text/plain	41792	1989	73	In connexion with the lively arts the distinction is clear, and involves the third division, for the lively arts are created and admired chiefly by the class known as lowbrows, are patronized and, to an extent enjoyed, by the highbrows; and are treated as impostors and GILBERT SELDES 409 a as contemptible vulgarism by the middle class, those who invari- ably are ill-at-ease in the presence of great art until it has been ap- proved by authority, those whom Dante rejected from Heaven and Hell alike, who blow neither hot nor cold, the Laodiceans. We would have patience left to weigh Scott's objective values, and in some serenity of spirit piously and gratefully acknowledge the few flashes of real art which, in spite of everything, do shine in the mass of his whole production.	cache/pst.000020203290-04.txt	txt/pst.000020203290-04.txt