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No matter. She came up to London to participate in the discovery that pleasure was a mistake, almost a vulgarity, and that life would be better without it; for in the 'fifties, and still more in the 'sixties, the philosophers thought they had at last found Nature out. And the arts, determined not to lag behind, became serious; the eighteenth century was spoken of as the