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further still. Some Roman writers were fond of talking about their own
affairs. If they do, the public naturally becomes interested. People
like Byron must have had a good deal to do with it. He was always
harping on his private life."
He paused, but the Count merely asked:
"No further back than that?"
"I don't know. Christianity made us interested in other people's
feelings. Brotherliness, you know. That must have helped. So did
Socrates, by the way. Of course it lowers the general standard. Where
everybody can read and write, there's an end of good taste. No, I don't
mean that exactly," he added, feeling that he was expressing himself
very stupidly.
"Well?"
"Oh, everything! The telegraph and society papers and interviewing and
America and yellow journalism . . . and all those family memoirs and
diaries and autobiographies and Court scandals. . . . They produce a
new kind of public, a public which craves for personalities rather than
information. They want to learn about our clothes and incomes and
habits.


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