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mote implication, with "good mannen.
D
Mr. Schwartz ignores the distinctiOll.
He also ignores the fact that
"man–
ners," in its narrower sense as well
II
its broader one, includes bad mannen
as well as good manners (it is only
by
ignoring this that Mr. Schwartz can
find that Mr. Aldridge's statement that
Boston is the moral capital of part
of
New England contradicts Mr. Eliot's
witticism against Boston "civilization").
Mr. Schwartz has a further reduc·
tion. In the next paragraph, for no
discernible reason, he substitutes the
term "snobbery" for the term "good
manners." Snobbery is recognized
by
everyone (or almost everyone, includin&
the etiquette books that Mr. Schwartz
snubs with considerable assurance)
to
be a particularly invidious form of
bad
manners, but this fact Mr. Schwartz
ignores, and finds, again without visible
reason, that Mr. Aldridge approves
snobbery.
Mr. Schwartz's prize example of the
life of manners (i.e., of snobbery)
is
Proust's Duc de Guermantes, who bru–
tally ignores and insults a dying friend
because he is more concerned with the
color of his wife's shoes than with
his friend's suffering. Mr. Schwartz ad–
mits that Mr. Aldridge would
be
shocked at such behavior, but he none–
theless maintains that the Duc de
Guermantes is Mr. Aldridge's
socia1
ideal, that Mr. Aldridge, like all of
UJ,
must choose between Swann and the
Duchess' red shoes.
He can impute such an ideal to Mr.
Aldridge only by the descending lad·
der of meanings I have traced: man·
ners, good manners, snobbery, brutal
and insane selfishness.
Chaque phras,
vers l'Enter nous descelldons d'un
pas.
The descent has nothing to do with
Mr. Aldridge's theory.
It is a descent to bad manners. Mr.
Schwartz fails to realize that, even
by
the standards of the most snobbish, the
actions of the Duc de Guermantes are
grossly iII-mannered. The iII mannen
are related to the values quite as Mr.
Aldridge says manners and values are
related: they are the fruit of, they
make manifest, gross wickedness. Nor
would it have been possible for Proust,
