fection of all forms of public
amusement was not without its influence. Men drifted, also, more and
more into the one-sided life of the club. Considered as a social phase,
no single thing has been more disastrous to the unity of modern society
than this. But the most formidable enemy of the salon has been the
press. Intelligence has become too universal to be focused in a few
drawing rooms. Genius and ambition have found a broader arena. When
interest no longer led men to seek the stimulus and approval of
a powerful coterie, it ceased to be more than an elegant form of
recreation, a theater of small talents, the diversion of an idle hour.
When the press assumed the sovereignty, the salon was dethroned.

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