1908 February 7

"...I heard a wonder of a lecture last night on 'the aesthetic experience'--It said that aestheticism was to be separated from real living--that we must not get the disassociated habit of thought or we become inefficient, unhappy and often unkind--the lady said, what ailed Henry James was his aestheticism unconsciously carried to excess--His 'later' people were all standing off 'experiencing' and observing."