The luxuriously elaborate details of his "artistic hedonism" are too suggestive of South Kensington Museum and æsthetic Encyclopædias.

" Strabo in a famous passage records an exceptional hedonism in Greek thought and goes on to expound the conventional belief.

It is strange that we have to go to the literature of Persia to find a poet whose deep religious convictions were fully reconciled with the theory of human existence which was nothing more or less than an optimistic hedonism.

And it was not a merely selfish hedonism that thrilled me, for a large part of my joy was that we all seemed to rejoice together.