Word: egoism
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...scorn by Mr. Bullock. He exposes the fallacy of the "Externalists" who suppose that it is ever possible to be "interested in things for themselves, and not because of the effect they have upon oneself"; he disputes the pretension of the Imagists to have done away with egoism. Mr. Bullock is a little too hard on the Imagists, but not nearly so hard as they are on all their rivals. In general, the public is now folerant enough of their movement, and the chip-on-the-shoulder attitude of its poets is quite unnecessary. The Imagists have done...