Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics

Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics is a philosophy classic and metaphysics essay that states, 'In these sick days, in a world such as ours, richer than usual in Truths grown obsolete, what can the fool think but that it is all a Den of Lies wherein whoso will not speak and act Lies must stand idle and despair?' Whereby it happens that for the artist who would fain minister medicinally to the relief of folly, 'the publishing of a Work of Art, ' designed, like this, to redeem Truth from premature obsolescence, 'becomes almost a necessity.