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Gospel of Dilettantism Mammonism at least works; but 'Go gracefully idle in Mayfair,' what does or can that mean?—Impotent, insolent Donothingism in Practice and Saynothingism in Speech.

From Past and Present by Carlyle, Thomas

Dilettantism is incompatible with a certain elevation of mind, and with a certain degree of "moral perfection," but not with technical proficiency.

From Introduction to the Study of History by Berry, George Godfrey

Dilettantism, an idle, often affected, almost always barren admiration and study of the fine arts, "in earnest about nothing."

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

Mammon, not a god at all, 85; Gospel of Mammonism, 181, 236; Working Mammonism better than Idle Dilettantism, 183, 188, 257; getting itself strangled, 228; fall of Mammon, 334, 362; Mammon like Fire, 355.

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas

But after all, the Gospel of Dilettantism, producing a Governing Class who do not govern, nor understand in the least that they are bound or expected to govern, is still mournfuler than that of Mammonism.

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas