text:  The seen and unseen fetters of civilization; the multitude of old ideas afloat in the world; the innumerable worn-out channels into which new ones are ever apt to flow; the general clamour with which critics nursed amidst such fetters receive any attempts at breaking them; the prevalence in a wealthy and highly civilized age of worldly or selfish ideas; the common approximation of characters by perpetual intercourse as of coins by continual rubbing in passing from man to man have taken away all freshness and originality from ideas